On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:32, Dale E Martin wrote: > > Maybe this is a good business opportunity for a group of Debian > > developers in a place such as the Netherlands, Germany, or the US. There > > is reasonable profit in hiring hosting space by the rack and renting it > > out by the 1U. > > Do have experience with this business model elsewhere? I believe in this > area there is a lack of linux hosting in any form, let alone Debian. It's > an interesting idea.
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