On August 25, 2018 1:59:55 PM GMT+02:00, Rupert Gallagher <r...@protonmail.com>
wrote:
><li...@wrant.com> wrote:
>
>> This vendor addresses hardware & firmware faults like the other
>enterprise vendors, they DON'T past year two. BIOS and BMC firmwares
>are not updated after this even with the long term lifetime products,
>you are on your own!
>
>On bios and ipmi updates, you can download and apply them yourself. For
>advanced bios updates, there is a licence you can purchase, as you do
>with Dell and HP.
>
>On warranty, they are in line with the industry standards:
>
>https://www.supermicro.com/support/Warranty/
>
>On open source, they work with the community, well enough to have a
>cetified list of compatible systems:
>
>https://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/os.cfm
>
>When you are in business, you do not want to go back to the drawing
>board each time. You need a platform where to build your own services.
>If you have to develop disk and keyboard drivers, and you are told off
>from the support mailing list, then the OS is worth nothing to you.
- That there is no current support, does not mean there will never be.
- misc@ is not a support mailing list. In fact, there is none. That does not,
however, mean that you can't get help from there.
>OpenBSD is not ready for enterprise.
By some definition of "for enterprise", sure.
/Alexander
>
>Your faithfull troll.
