Re: Big Companies' Linux support

2003-01-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mark Veltzer wrote: Oren! Did you ever see a commercial company release a a bug fix just for you ? Actually, I currently work for a big company, and I know that our escallation support gusy routinely issue patches to specific customers. Occasionally (very rarely), they even write in new feat

Re: Big Companies' Linux support

2003-01-03 Thread Ehud Karni
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:56:13 +0200, Oleg Kobets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually the company I work for give on-site linux and unix support. > > We are not a BIG company, but besides our company there are a lot more of > small and medium sized companies that support Linux. I forgot to add

Re: Big Companies' Linux support

2003-01-03 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hi! Actually the company I work for give on-site linux and unix support. We are not a BIG company, but besides our company there are a lot more of small and medium sized companies that support Linux. So, not all is lost in our small country :-) --- Oleg Kobets Network Administrator Breakthroug

Re: Big Companies' Linux support

2003-01-03 Thread Oren Held
Hi, > I think we can all safely say that software support is virtually NON EXISTANT > where closed source software for the masses is concerned. [...] Maybe you misunderstood me. I'm talking about another kind of support. Not something that'll require the software company to write OS patches, but

Re: Big Companies' Linux support

2003-01-03 Thread Ehud Karni
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:00:45 +0200, Mark Veltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we can all safely say that software support is virtually NON EXISTANT > where closed source software for the masses is concerned. You are definitely wrong here. If your site is large enough or is ready to pay

Re: Big Companies' Linux support

2003-01-03 Thread Mark Veltzer
Oren! I think we can all safely say that software support is virtually NON EXISTANT where closed source software for the masses is concerned. Did you ever see a commercial company release a a bug fix just for you ? Did you ever manage to get in contact with ANYONE in MS who knows what the ?%$%

Big Companies' Linux support

2003-01-03 Thread Oren Held
Hi, I just thought.. Many big companies are begining to sell (or just thinking of selling) computers with Linux installed. This includes Sun, HP, IBM and Dell. Also, some big software companies are selling their software for Linux, and I think that Oracle is a good example. I'm just curious how i