Mike McCarty wrote:
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a box that would crash under load about every other week but nothing I tried would cause it to happen predictably. I moved the same software to a different box and went on with life. And they probably could have done the same.
Umm, I dunno about that. I *am* aware of how the organization treats some customers who pay for support, and I do know that it has in past driven other customers away. I have seen the same attitude in other suppliers cause better products to die, while inferior products flourish, due to the difference in support. I'd prefer that Linux flourish and not die just because MS is willing to do more of what is necessary to make life easier on customers than some other organization which supports Linux is willing to do.
Mike
Hear, hear, hear ....