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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:50:18 -0700
From:      Patrick Calkins <pcalkins@oemsupport.com>
To:        "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Which hardware vender for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239A1@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>

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Have a quick (or not so quick) question:

I am installing a datacenter with web servers, mail servers, database
servers and file servers. I don't want any MS products if I can help it ;o).
The question is which commercial vendors are best to use if going with a
FreeBSD OS? I tried to talk to Dell and Compaq about it, but they seem more
than happy to help me if I am going to use all MS stuff, but mention FreeBSD
and they are all clueless about it. They don't even seem to up on Linux
either (although they both claim to support it, and ship their servers with
it if you need it). I talked to BSDi about it as well, they (naturally)
support the xBSD but it seems that they want to sell you the same hardware
that I can go to my local computer store and buy myself. I want fast,
reliable, good equipment. With the norm for a datacenter - RAID 5, hot-swap,
clustering, etc. I wanted to stick with a one vender solution if I could
help it. Does anyone know what Yahoo runs for their hardware vendors? I
noticed on mail.yahoo.com they sport a Compaq logo, but I thought they used
FreeBSD for their OS - does this mean that Compaq *really* does support xBSD
if you give them enough $$$??? I expect the project to be around $250,000 so
money really isnt a concern.

hehe
Thanks for the input!
Patrick

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