Rainer Duffner wrote:
Amos Shapira schrieb:
2009/10/19 ken gebser@mousecar.com:
In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on just one issue and their "support" has been terrible, so far completely useless and a waste of time. I don't know what Redhat charges us for
The only guy I personally know who went with RedHat "because their support was included for free with our servers" reported the same.
I'm a bit surprised (and disappointed) to hear such negative testimonials about RedHat support.
Do others have different experience?http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US
Could it be the the quality of support is tiered by how much you pay, enough to make a difference?
I think the end-result may be just that, but for a different reason than one may think.
Note that I don't have a deeper insight into what actually goes on at RedHat, but this is what I think happens, based on my own observations supporting customers.
If you are a large customer, you open cases more often and maybe even have dedicated support-staff. After a while, that staff knows the way around your hardware, your network and gets a feeling for where the problem may lie. It's incredibly difficult to diagnose a problem with just the few lines you usually get from a support-ticket - I dare say almost impossible. Also, of course, with a larger contract, you may get to 2nd and 3rd-level support easier/quicker.
Best Regards, Rainer
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My Experience has been that its the difference between installing system and setting up systems for production use. In New Zealand at least it seems that if you can have a system where everything is installed in the standard way with a default configuration then you can get assistance. If your installation varies from this at all, the first statement is we won't / can't help until you move to the standard default configuration.