On Thursday 22 February 2007 09:14, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:49:41AM -0800, Jeff Simmons wrote: > > I'm in the middle of putting together a rather large order for > > servers, about half of which will be running OpenBSD. I've gotten > > pretty good at finding compatible hardware, but I was wondering, is > > there a vendor(s) who is known for either a) good technical support > > for OpenBSD or b) support for the development of OpenBSD (or both)? > > A company I can feel good about dealing with? > > A while back I bought a server from http://www.asacomputers.com/. > They are listed on http://www.openbsd.org/products.html, which I > didn't know until *after* I'd bought from them. > > They were helpful and responsive, and worked with me to line up a > compatible RAID controller, etc. They installed and configured > OpenBSD with everything working. Of course I did a fresh install, but > since they'll install and configure as part of the price you *know* > everything will work before they ship. :) They even called/emailed me > later to make sure I was happy with the machine, and that there were > no problems. > > They are not the cheapest, but they carry good quality server > hardware and the service appears to be very good (I can't say what > would happen if I'd had problems, since everything has been fine). > And when I say they're not the cheapest, neither are they the most > expensive. For what they're selling they're competitive.
ASA Computers is also listed on http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html They have been here in the silicon valley for almost 20 years, have a great reputation locally and I've bought from them multiple times over the last 15 years. I've never had a problem with them and they even handled the return of a faulty mainboard very well. Supporting open source is not new to them. They've been selling supported systems and have been providing distros/projects on CD since the mid 90's. -jcr
