[asterisk-users] Had it with Dell Garbage - HP Question

[Al Baker]

"There are people who will support your Debian / Centos / whatever boxes."

If it is OK to ask on a non-commercial list, do you have a list of 
reliable O/S support folks.
By this I mean companies with a support staff, as opposed to a really 
bright and talented guy
who does it between classes in school.
Historically our projects were on big HP iron with HP-UX support from HP

THX

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:34:36AM -0400, Al Baker wrote:
>   
>> Helps a bunch !!!
>> One follow up question - out of all of your possible choices for the OS 
>> how did you pick *Debian*.
>> I 'm not saying is bad, I just know nothing about the particular disto. 
>> and and very curious what
>> it brought to the table that made you pick over say *RedHat* - where you 
>> can *buy support *or *SUSE* - where you can *buy support*. My fear from 
>> hell is that I' get 50 or 60 of these boxes in, start having kernel 
>> panics, and have no damn body to help except the folks on mailing lists. 
>> Mind you these are often really smart people, very generously giving of 
>> their time, but not quite the say as a manned/paid support organization.
>>     
>
> What exactly is supported?
>
> Specifically, RHEL does not include Zaptel. And is not likely to include
> the kernel Zaptel modules until Zaptel comes closer to mainline kernel.
>
> SLES includes a Zaptel package of its own. 1.2.4 .
>
> Will they support a system that has unsupported kernel code?
>
>
> What is the alternative? buy support elsewhere. There are people who
> will support your Debian / Centos / whatever boxes. With RHEL and SuSE
> you have to buy support. With Debian it is optional.
>
>