On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 13:06, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
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.
Have you called MS support? Baffles me to no end that some companies I've worked for insisted on MS support contract, but whenever the IT guys called they either got zero help, or they were banned from calling because of the per-call fee they had to pay on top of teh support contract. The end result was the employees sorted out the problems themselves (which is what they were being paid for anyway) and the company paid MS or some 3rd party company for support contracts that were never (or rarely ever) used. The reality is... the same company could have implemented Linux, supported it in exactly the same way (by hiring one or two skilled Linux guys) and saved the astronomical costs of the support contracts and software licenses. With support groups like what we have here in openSUSE, or in the many other Linux distros, you have a huge experience resource pool to draw upon... in almost every case, someone somewhere knows the way around the odd problems that crop up... and usually you find your solution faster than you would with paid support.
problem, find its boundaries. Check "all the usual suspects" and google around a bit.
isn't that the usual way? :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org