Chris Mauritz wrote:
I have had some contact with the company. Frankly, I thought they were rather expensive when you consider what's under the hood. I also wasn't too thrilled with their idea of service...."uh, if your system fails you can ship it back to us in the UK and we'll ship you another one." But maybe they've gotten better.
you seem to be confused... openfiler is an open source distro built on CentOS. hardly the kind of thing you would need to 'ship to the UK'
No, that was the result of an email exchange with Xinit which I found through the link section of the openfiler web site. Sorry about the confusion. I'll see if I can dig up the email. It came from a fellow with an Indian name (I think), but I can't remember it off the top of my head.
Someone told you to send the openfiler distro back to the UK for fixing if you had a problem ? I'd love to see that email :)
Anyway, OpenFiler is open source, you can download it and use it, the support issues are exactly the same as any other open source project.
Xinit provides other addon's ( like iscsi-target support ) and software support contracts, as a commercial service - using OpenFiler in no way forces the user to either buy or use this commercial service, but should you need it - its there.
- K