Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

[Amitabh Kant]

On 7/29/06, User Freebsd <freebsd at 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