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 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq