From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 23:40:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF4616A4DD for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:40:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Clinton.Born@dig.com) Received: from mail1.disney.com (mail1.disney.com [204.128.192.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B699F43D46 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:40:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Clinton.Born@dig.com) Received: from imr1.disney.pvt (imr1.disney.pvt [153.7.231.20]) by mail1.disney.com with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:40:45 -0700 Received: from sm-cala-xgw01b.swna.wdpr.disney.com (sm-cala-xgw01b.swna.wdpr.disney.com [153.7.30.142]) by imr1.disney.pvt with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:40:44 -0700 Received: from sm-cala-xm20.swna.wdpr.disney.com ([153.7.195.120]) by sm-cala-xgw01b.swna.wdpr.disney.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:40:44 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:41:45 -0700 Message-Id: <88D3FDF2A772ED44BCF8C91626ECD06905FD0A75@sm-cala-xm20.swna.wdpr.disney.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Thread-Index: AcaxqmIIGmAziZBgRRa8Olb+7SlcBAAK5qXg From: "Born, Clinton" To: "Amitabh Kant" , "Nikolas Britton" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jul 2006 23:40:44.0728 (UTC) FILETIME=[143CBB80:01C6B1D6] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:40:46 -0000 Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period! -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Amitabh Kant Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:28 AM To: Nikolas Britton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? And this is what I always do. As a person responsible for recommending/approving/buying harware related stuff for few different companies, I make it a point that I *prefer* only those brands that have support for FreeBSD. For me, this is more so in case of RAID cards. On 7/27/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are > pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work > on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's > uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor > doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open > documentation. > I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money bags, that it will make commercial sense to them to support *BSD. Amitabh _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"