Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:42:44 +0530 From: Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "naeem.saad@ufone.com" <naeem.saad@ufone.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD support required Message-ID: <CAPTAQBLu5xnRQXGUcmwCumvsdKT--nE-5OSk2g3YkcxrGysikw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPTAQBJe5Jdk-=kHXnkszknwZ1Nh%2Bm29sAvhGrgAAL=%2BujFNYw@mail.gmail.com> References: <C4D84D0AF978A242A3256B476CCA80CE01814E10@P-ISB-EXMBX2.ptml.pk> <5524D536.6000709@FreeBSD.org> <CAPTAQBJe5Jdk-=kHXnkszknwZ1Nh%2Bm29sAvhGrgAAL=%2BujFNYw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 8 April 2015, Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 8 April 2015, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','matthew@freebsd.org');>> 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 >> >> > > Apologies for the last email. Accidentally hit the sent button .... As for South Asia, it would be difficult to get a company support for FreeBSD. You might get individual consultants though. Amitabh
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