On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:06:13PM +0100, Subhi S Hashwa wrote: > Quoting Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Actually this is incorrect: Everybody can provide support for CentOS, > > Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, or whatever. With RedHat or SuSE > > you're locked to a single vendor to provide maintinance. > > You're already locked in (to Digium)
You've already gave me 1000$. So why on earth won't you give me not an extra 1000$? Anyway, you're not. Unless you bought their prioprietary version. Avoiding a vendor lock-in is indeed a good argument against buying that. > > You're missing my point. > > In a business enviroment, you discovered an undocumented issue with XYZ I > want to have the peace of mind and assurance that I woun't be stuck out in the > cold waiting for a response from a mailing list or getting insults from > someone > on irc, it's how much is your time worth to you question and how long your > customer is willing to wait for you to fix the system, think SLAs. Now what would it take for someone to give you an SLA for a free distro? In fact, there are those who provide it. E.g: see link from my message. > > Telephony is a critical system to a business, if your phone system is down > your > business is as good as dead. If it costs me £600 for OS with support for 3 > years, it's a price worth paying in the grand scale of things. You're buying > Xeon server, Digium card, Digium license for G729 why not pay a small amount > of > money for peace of mind if the OS decides in the future it doesn't like your > tie > one day. Think of it as insurance. It's not that small an ammount, BTW. And the standard SLA naturally won't cover the Asterisk packages. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
