Comment service, schmervice... we just want the box. (Score 5) 203
Larry wrote:
"But you have to understand more about what we offer those customers. On the surface, people think we're a hardware company. We're not - we're an Open Source company. We work directly with those customers to solve their problems using Linux and Open Source."
...that's just not true, at least not in the case of the *entire* list of companies he mentioned.
Specifically, at StarMedia, where i'm chief systems guy, we've got hundreds of VA's boxes racked up around the world... we *love* the hardware, and love VA's ability to get us another truck full of servers delivered really quickly...
...but we don't run linux on *any* of them. Like several other companies who've been challenged to scale *way* up, we run FreeBSD. On VA "linux" boxes.
i (and other members of my team) kind of resent outside companies talking about how we need their consulting help... it *is* kind of fun to get a "sorry, we don't support that" response from such an "Open Source" company... :)
...we're not so resentful that we'd stop buying servers from VA (did you get that last order, Larry?), we just want to make sure people know there's devil stickers on top of the penguins in our cage.
"But you have to understand more about what we offer those customers. On the surface, people think we're a hardware company. We're not - we're an Open Source company. We work directly with those customers to solve their problems using Linux and Open Source."
...that's just not true, at least not in the case of the *entire* list of companies he mentioned.
Specifically, at StarMedia, where i'm chief systems guy, we've got hundreds of VA's boxes racked up around the world... we *love* the hardware, and love VA's ability to get us another truck full of servers delivered really quickly...
...but we don't run linux on *any* of them. Like several other companies who've been challenged to scale *way* up, we run FreeBSD. On VA "linux" boxes.
i (and other members of my team) kind of resent outside companies talking about how we need their consulting help... it *is* kind of fun to get a "sorry, we don't support that" response from such an "Open Source" company...
...we're not so resentful that we'd stop buying servers from VA (did you get that last order, Larry?), we just want to make sure people know there's devil stickers on top of the penguins in our cage.
