From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 08:58:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19866 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:58:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19855 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:58:39 GMT (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id LAA21154; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:55:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:58:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: Josef Grosch cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, supporters@nanyang-computer.com Subject: Re: It's the economy, stupid! (Was: Re: New name?) In-Reply-To: <19980413081819.63818@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Josef Grosch wrote: > > 1. Who are Nan Yang? It's just an alias for greg's company as far as I can see. > > I would also like to know who is Nan Yang. Are they incorporated in the US? > Another issue that need to be addressed is how are we going to get > clients. Are they going to be calling them or are we going to be calling > ISP and offering support contracts. It's clear that the whole idea of a commercial repackaged FreeBSD is a wash. So let's drop that idea. Concentrate on supporting FreeBSD AS IS. Let's concentrate on 3 things: 1) Support Contracts 2) How to deploy phone support 3) Pricing I have already mentioned IMO I think we should clone Cisco's smartnet contracts. I think its a good model to follow. It covers almost every situtaion. And is in general pretty solid. Phone support is a tad tricky. So anyone is more than welcome to chime up how to do this on a volunteer venture. And naturally pricing on different levels of support. Phone, email, onsite, etc.. I think if we focus on these 3 issues we will get a lot more done. Chris -- "I am closed minded. It keeps the rain out." ===================================| Open Systems Networking And Consulting. FreeBSD 2.2.6 is available now! | Phone: 316-326-6800 -----------------------------------| 1402 N. Washington, Wellington, KS-67152 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting-Network Engineering-Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQENAzPemUsAAAEH/06iF0BU8pMtdLJrxp/lLk3vg9QJCHajsd25gYtR8X1Px1Te gWU0C4EwMh4seDIgK9bzFmjjlZOEgS9zEgia28xDgeluQjuuMyUFJ58MzRlC2ONC foYIZsFyIqdjEOCBdfhH5bmgB5/+L5bjDK6lNdqD8OAhtC4Xnc1UxAKq3oUgVD/Z d5UJXU2xm+f08WwGZIUcbGcaonRC/6Z/5o8YpLVBpcFeLtKW5WwGhEMxl9WDZ3Kb NZH6bx15WiB2Q/gZQib3ZXhe1xEgRP+p6BnvF364I/To9kMduHpJKU97PH3dU7Mv CXk2NG3rtOgLTEwLyvtBPqLnbx35E0JnZc0k5YkABRO0JU9wZW4gU3lzdGVtcyA8 b3BzeXNAb3Blbi1zeXN0ZW1zLm5ldD4= =BBjp -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message