Remote install of solaris on a 220R

[Scott Weikart]

On Thursday 24 June 2004  8:05 pm, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> > Heh. I've finally given up on redhat.. at my day-gig we're redhat
> > ES, soon with provisioning server, but in my company, it's debian
> > all the way.
>
> We ship an old RedHat inside a company-branded box we sell, in the
> (outdated) hope that they can buy support from RedHat if they want it.  We
> haven't updated to ES yet.  We need to do something.

You can at least send them to progeny.com for support.  It's cheaper
than ES.

> I love Debian and use it myself every chance I get (having spent the effort
> to get up the first part of the learning curve, I find that it rocks), but
> the boss needs someone commercial to take the bla..., uh support work.  Or
> thinks he does.  What should I do?  (Talk about changing the subject....)

There's a fair chance you can buy commercial support for Debian from
progeny.com (both Debian and Progeny were founded by Ian Murdock).

-scott