Re: [9fans] Question about Plan9 project

[Adriano Verardo <a.verardo@tecmav.com>]

Anthony Sorace wrote:
> i, at least, would be interested to know more about what
> the specific concerns are. that is, is it about availability,
> future evolution, commercial support, or something else?
> anthony
>
Mainly availability.

In the past I had some difficulties when I suggested to use FreeBSD
instead of Linux,
Unix instead of VMS etc etc in a production environments, because a
largely used
product is considered more reliable. From this point of view, of course.

Support is also an issue

The usual questions are about bug fixes and so on. But these are not
problems
because it's quite easy to prove that the support is good, the system is
stable etc etc.

Instead, can happen that some hardware supported by Plan9 is not supplied
by italian reseller and vice versa. This can (sometimes) be a problem
for the
end user.

Unbelievable but true, a driver (or a patch to a driver or whatever
else) done by an
italian is not considered as good as the stuff from the original site.
It is a psychological problem  I  have  often to  face with.

adriano