Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:04:32 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Born, Clinton" <Clinton.Born@dig.com> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <20060729020231.K27679@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <54BDA592-E798-4A1C-A53E-72C8707B3630@shire.net> References: <88D3FDF2A772ED44BCF8C91626ECD06905FD0A75@sm-cala-xm20.swna.wdpr.disney.com> <54BDA592-E798-4A1C-A53E-72C8707B3630@shire.net>
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Born, Clinton wrote: > >> Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our >> shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period! > > That is not as easy as you make it out to be. WHat one might in the short > term see as the best tool may not be such in 2 years when support is dropped > and you are in a forced obsolescence and have to replace it with something > else... So making value judgments like tools that are known to be well > supported on FReeBSD for example is part of determining the best tool for the > job Actually, and this brings up another point ... there is nothing that stops VendorX from discontinuing their 'open policy' in 2 years either ... although one would hope that over the years, more would open, not less, it is possible ... Case in point: ICP Vortex *did* provide source drivers for FreeBSD up until FreeBSD 5.x, and then stop'd: http://www.icp-vortex.com/english/download/rz_neu/freebsd/frbsd_e.htm > > Chad > >> >> -----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 <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> 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" >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" > > --- > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > Your Web App and Email hosting provider > chad at shire.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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