From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 08:09:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A0DB674; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 08:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x22c.google.com (mail-ob0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DEE70CE2; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 08:09:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by oblw8 with SMTP id w8so75937796obl.0; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:09:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=PgnFNYpaRJH+2oh8LDIYoNPnEX6+JLl9EwYz7BbxVlc=; b=l4PT8NvmlaO5EelZF4Sv5MFYRmLBHvGjbcLKIIeirEiO1XIbkwGRrfmM94BtwNV1nT R/BCJ+W/BAIw31tRni1yrEBVqmR/17XizWN3/hiFjwv8p9Z+UwNv+6rcYK0zUuOwVTNz VizcuUqqkqEm0CoDarSO8g6bPSQlohPLON8ecPm5HndeLknivqUSWrB1B30/qJVSUH6P pi/cbJpjqBIG2tyK0GpMB22rARYEG8I9NFRboX8nxa1uraU8yfH39rmvjDbzI7rgSSU8 qIpOFYnHc+zRBtGAO3azMSCiMd2/C2EBIgUhAWQdniDbnbGW0E2gZKhs4j3lT/Lo99FL NGrw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.245.70 with SMTP id xm6mr30020822oec.17.1428480549197; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:09:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.76.129 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 01:09:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5524D536.6000709@FreeBSD.org> References: <5524D536.6000709@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:39:09 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD support required From: Amitabh Kant To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "naeem.saad@ufone.com" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 08:09:10 -0000 On Wednesday 8 April 2015, Matthew Seaman 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