John Bennett said the following on 12/07/2011 02:38 AM:
Or they just can't get the support from any "other than Windows" suppliers!
Call me cynical but I've never had satisfactory support from ANY vendor for any product even when I've paid for 'extended' or 'supplementary' support. That goes not only for Microsoft but for IBM, DG and HP as well. But then I tend to study the manuals and 'wolf fence' the problem BEFORE calling support. A lot of help desk work amounts to them working though a basic fault-tree script and saying "gee that sounds strange, lets see what the manuals say". BTDT taught that to my help desk staff. Most callers don't seem to have read the manual. But many of the contributors here are probably ahead of the 1st and second level support at vendors, many of them up t the grade of the vendor's developers. There's also attitude: some of us try to diagnose and identify the problem, find its boundaries. Check "all the usual suspects" and google around a bit. If you are like that then don't think about vendor support. If you have a problem you can't solve its unlikely they can either. Invest your money in a "sacrificial machine" instead. Experiment on that. -- "The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations & imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have "arrived" believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid." -- Dale Turner. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org