Re: Debian: abandon ship?
On 18 Jun 2002, Grant Edwards wrote:
> In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> then go ahead and get a service contract. If you're running a
> server than has to have five nines up-time, then you'd better
> pay to have somebody guaranteed on-site in 60 minutes from when
> the phone rings.
And we're down to three nines already.
> For what I do (SW development) I invariably get better/quicker
> results from mailing lists and Usenet than I ever did from
> commercial support.
I've worked in some small businesses where the software support
contracts were priced up to about 5000.00$US per year.
In more than 40000.00$US of support I would say I've seen
less than 400.00$US of value.
This is aside from updates and fixes which I won't attempt to
assign a specific value to; but on this Debian is clearly
outperforming all the proprietary sources I've used.
rob Live the dream.
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