Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:39:09 +0530 From: Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "naeem.saad@ufone.com" <naeem.saad@ufone.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD support required Message-ID: <CAPTAQBJe5Jdk-=kHXnkszknwZ1Nh%2Bm29sAvhGrgAAL=%2BujFNYw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5524D536.6000709@FreeBSD.org> References: <C4D84D0AF978A242A3256B476CCA80CE01814E10@P-ISB-EXMBX2.ptml.pk> <5524D536.6000709@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday 8 April 2015, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2015/04/08 07:03, Saad Bin Naeem/Information Technology/Islamabad wrote: > > We are planning to deploy FreeBSD in our environment and we want > support for this OS. Our company is one of the top telecom company of > Pakistan. We already have the support of different OS like RHEL, Suse > Linux, OEL etc. I would appreciate if you can answer the following > questions: > > > > 1. Do you have any support for FreeBSD in Pakistan? > > > > 2. If yes what is the cost? > > > > Waiting for your quick response. > > I'm afraid you're not going to get much joy on this subject from the > freebsd-questions@ list. It's a self-help list for a bunch of FreeBSD > users, and while there may be people here that run businesses based on > FreeBSD most of the readership is in Europe or America. Who knows > though? Someone may pop up able to fulfil your requirements. > > I'd suggest contacting the BSD Pakistan user group via > http://bsdpakistan.org/ but that site appears to be in Japanese now... > > There are lists of vendors and consultants available on the FreeBSD.org > site: https://www.freebsd.org/commercial/commercial.html and it may be > worth your while enquiring at the FreeBSD Foundation > https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ > > FreeBSD doesn't have an associated commercial support company in the > same way that eg. RedHat does for RedHat Linux. There's been some talk > about creating such a company, but nothing concrete as yet. > > You can effectively get support from various independent contractors, or > by hiring FreeBSD-savvy administrators, but that may not be of suitable > for your purposes. > > On the other hand, FreeBSD has a very good track record of community > support. The chances are that you can get solutions to your problems > simply by asking online (and for free), but there are no constraints on > how quickly support will be offered, nor is there anyone to sue for > compensation in the event of losses due to FreeBSD failures. This is a > problem for some corporates, but hasn't stopped some very well known > names building their businesses on top of FreeBSD. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > Echoing
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