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--- twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Absolutely my experience.  We are a Solaris/Cisco shop primarily
> bc of the contracts.  As a big company we have grand poobah
> contracts with both companies that will land us a replacement
> server/router/switch within a day.  That is a HUGE deal.  Bigger
> than Sun hardware being better than i386, bigger than
> performance, bigger than ease-of-use, etc..  

I'm sure a place like http://www.freebsdsystems.com/ could be talked into a
similar sort of contract. Money talks, after all. Then there are these
lists:

http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html
http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting_bycat.html