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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:42:14 +0530
From:      "Amitabh Kant" <amitabhkant@gmail.com>
To:        "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
Message-ID:  <84b68b3d0607281312h118c9fbav4d66a3de6aa8b1a4@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/29/06, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> wrote:
> And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care,
> since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be
> losing .... not buying their products isn't telling them anything they
> didn't already believe ...

The point where it hurts them is when I prefer stuffs having FreeBSD
support even while purchasing/recommending hardware for windows. I do
a lot consulting for companies which have a mix of BSD/Linux and
Windows servers. This is more so in case of RAID cards for me, where I
would go in for 3Ware rather than Promise or other brands.

I must admit though that it is not always possible to follow this
rule, but I amke it a point to follow it as closely as possible in the
given circumstances. As somebody has already written earlier, one
should pick the best tool for the job. But if I have a approximately
similar performance options from two or more hardware, my choice would
automatically go in for one that supports *BSD.

Amitabh



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