[HLUG] Linux and comercial support

[Julian Robbins]

Andrew Hodgson wrote:

>Hi,
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>What are people's experiences on this list of mid sized companies going with Linux alternative products, but finding the support costs prohibitively high, especially if you have a Microsoft support aggreement which covers a whole raft of products in one swoop?
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>For example, we were recently quoted figures of over £15,000 per year for SQL support with a clustered SQL instance.  This could be a fantastic opertunity for us to put real money into the open source comunity, and also give us real advantages, but we will be a lot better off cash wize on the Microsoft offering!
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>Are we doing something fundamentally wrong, should we go with GPL code and not get the support, or are there other options?
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>Thanks.
>Andrew.
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Perhaps you could sign up and try the Shropshire LUG list for this. They 
have a few more system admins in larger organisations that might be able 
to help.

Julian

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