Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:50:18 -0700 From: Patrick Calkins <pcalkins@oemsupport.com> To: "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239A1@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>
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Have a quick (or not so quick) question: I am installing a datacenter with web servers, mail servers, database servers and file servers. I don't want any MS products if I can help it ;o). The question is which commercial vendors are best to use if going with a FreeBSD OS? I tried to talk to Dell and Compaq about it, but they seem more than happy to help me if I am going to use all MS stuff, but mention FreeBSD and they are all clueless about it. They don't even seem to up on Linux either (although they both claim to support it, and ship their servers with it if you need it). I talked to BSDi about it as well, they (naturally) support the xBSD but it seems that they want to sell you the same hardware that I can go to my local computer store and buy myself. I want fast, reliable, good equipment. With the norm for a datacenter - RAID 5, hot-swap, clustering, etc. I wanted to stick with a one vender solution if I could help it. Does anyone know what Yahoo runs for their hardware vendors? I noticed on mail.yahoo.com they sport a Compaq logo, but I thought they used FreeBSD for their OS - does this mean that Compaq *really* does support xBSD if you give them enough $$$??? I expect the project to be around $250,000 so money really isnt a concern. hehe Thanks for the input! Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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