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

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Sun Jul 30 23:24:13 UTC 2006


On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>
> On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Born, Clinton wrote:
>
>> Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our
>> shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period!
>
> That is not as easy as you make it out to be.  WHat one might in the short 
> term see as the best tool may not be such in 2 years when support is dropped 
> and you are in a forced obsolescence and have to replace it with something 
> else...  So making value judgments like tools that are known to be well 
> supported on FReeBSD for example is part of determining the best tool for the 
> job

Actually, and this brings up another point ... there is nothing that stops 
VendorX from discontinuing their 'open policy' in 2 years either ... 
although one would hope that over the years, more would open, not less, it 
is possible ...

Case in point:  ICP Vortex *did* provide source drivers for FreeBSD up 
until FreeBSD 5.x, and then stop'd:

http://www.icp-vortex.com/english/download/rz_neu/freebsd/frbsd_e.htm



  > > Chad
>
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Amitabh Kant
>> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:28 AM
>> To: Nikolas Britton
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
>> 
>> And this is what I always do. As a person responsible for
>> recommending/approving/buying harware related stuff for few different
>> companies, I make it a point that I *prefer* only those brands that
>> have support for FreeBSD. For me, this is more so in case of RAID
>> cards.
>> 
>> On 7/27/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are
>>> pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work
>>> on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's
>>> uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor
>>> doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open
>>> documentation.
>>> 
>> 
>> I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether
>> to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their
>> product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our
>> money bags, that it will make commercial sense to them to support
>> *BSD.
>> 
>> Amitabh
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