From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 20:12:20 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 CFE1F16A503 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:12:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amitabhkant@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239FD43D49 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:12:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amitabhkant@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id k40so986198ugc for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:12:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nP8OPwXmouup3VvwY/GMQjWjgo/a/03mH2c1zHZoNSekSJMOL4HJNfkws4mx5osHoPUrJ8Ijufx7sa5YKSJN9SGPyMXyDA/6FW7AkwV71BI/vluM4oJ/jk4N6wjuVXP6rbnKSXnARhApzKv6vutbaCwVE/hoB45K5TlRKCDADNw= Received: by 10.67.101.8 with SMTP id d8mr8977824ugm; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.31.7 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <84b68b3d0607281312h118c9fbav4d66a3de6aa8b1a4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:42:14 +0530 From: "Amitabh Kant" To: "Nikolas Britton" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060728161300.M27679@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060726164622.Q17979@ganymede.hub.org> <20060726201933.GH5284@jeeves.stilyagin.local> <20060726185018.BB70.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20060726231555.GB19000@gothmog.pc> <84b68b3d0607271127k175100d9sa3285fadc53e5369@mail.gmail.com> <20060728161300.M27679@ganymede.hub.org> Cc: 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: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:12:20 -0000 On 7/29/06, User Freebsd 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