From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 24 15:35:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA26070 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 15:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merchant.tns.net (tcilx.terracom-usa.com [204.216.142.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA26062 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 15:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tiller@localhost) by merchant.tns.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id PAA13822; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 15:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708242230.PAA13822@merchant.tns.net> From: "Studded" To: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" , "mikk0022@maroon.tc.umn.edu" Date: Sun, 24 Aug 97 15:34:16 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated... Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Aug 1997 15:44:24 -0500, mikk0022@maroon.tc.umn.edu wrote: Someone (Joerg?) wrote: >> Except when the party involved wants official support, like about >> all mayor corporations. > >Which isn't cheap for /any/ operating system. And it exists for FreeBSD. >(well, they have a sizeable 'consultants' page, anyway). Actually in way too many cases "support" means "someone we can sue." FreeBSD works in environments where the people that have the money and make the decisions are going to have their hands on the hardware, but once you start moving into the big money markets (I am speaking for the US only, although I anticipate it's probably the same other places) having someone to recover damages from is at least as important as having someone on the other end of the tech-support number. Doug Do thou amend they face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"