HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-)

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 05:51:05PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:31:17PM -0500, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
> > FreeBSD is not currently an officially supported operating system, but
> ...
> > To provide official "tier-one" support (drivers for advanced features,
> > management agents, deployment software, regression testing, customer
> > support, services, etc.) would be very costly, and, at this time, the
> > FreeBSD market share numbers don't support that level of investment.
> 
> This is open source -- you provide the docs we supply the drivers.  Or is
> the cost of the packets carring the PDF files too expensive?

Don't be nasty, I know from experience (when getting the SmartArray docs
out of HOU) how much fun it can be to get specs out of CPQ^WHP. That worked
only because I knew who to contact to get a foot between the door.

The tendency to plaster NDA/Company Confidential on next to everything is
an unfortunate development, but by no means exclusive to HP. All major
companies are suffering from it to a certain extent.

Having said all that: it would sure be nice to get specs ;)

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