Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:54:26 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Patrick Calkins <pcalkins@oemsupport.com> Cc: "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010419215425.A11628@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239A1@puke.reno.oemsupport.com> References: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239A1@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:50:18PM -0700, Patrick Calkins wrote: > 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. > You might want to take a look at Apache Digital (http://www.apache.com) I bought an Athalon workstation from them a few months back and am well pleased. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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