don't forget the NAS appliances out there - the snap servers run a version of Linux if you want to stay in the family. http://www.snapserver.com/snap/en-US/Products/ they will give you enterprise support as well, and they have models from 250GB to 82TB. Mike Miller wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Raymond Norton wrote: > > >>> What's your objective? >>> >> We provide educational videos to 20 school districts. I have had great >> results with Freenas, but have a bit of a concern implementing it in >> this application. If my homemade Freenas box goes down, it will be my >> problem. With an enterprise solution I would have support available. >> > > > One of the arguments in favor of open-source software is that even though > it is hard to make money selling it, a developer can make money supporting > it, as can other skilled people. So I'm wondering if there isn't any > company offering FreeNAS support contracts. I would say that such a > company could provide "enterprise" FreeNAS. > > I see this... > > http://sourceforge.net/services/project_services.php?d-7959848-p=1&d-7959848-s=5&d-7959848-o=2&project_id=151951 > > ...but I don't have time now to study it and read it. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >