Tons of open source applications have professional support! Look at MySQL and Google!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hubbard, Greg L</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com">
greg.hubbard@eds.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Hmmm. They will be using open-source software,
probably running on an open-source operating system on commodity-priced computer
equipment, and they want "professional" support? Does a guy named Dilbert
work there, by chance?</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">As good as Hobbit is, maybe you should recommend that they
buy the payware version of Big Brother from Quest, or go get one of the other
payware low end tools? There are lots of monitoring solutions out there
that come with some form of support. Orion from Solarwinds looks pretty
good on paper, but I have never used it. There is also SiteScope, Whats Up
Gold, etc. Lots of cheap tools that don't scale very well, but are great
for a small shop.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Just
my 0.02 monetary units -- I am laughing WITH you (I hope) and not AT
you...</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">GLH</font></span><span> </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> HAMPL Pavel [mailto:<a href="mailto:phampl@csob.cz" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">phampl@csob.cz
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<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 30, 2007 9:17 AM<br><b>To:</b>
<a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] Hobbit professional
support<br></font><br></div><div><span class="e" id="q_11691354c1bb14ff_1">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Hi,</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>trying find any company which can provide
professional support for Hobbit but going nowhere after a week
...</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>I am about to implement Hobbit, it is not a problem,
the pilot already in place, but the customer wants to have support what I
cannot do for him.</span></font></div>
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<div><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Already emailed Cookitservices which is mentioned on
the Wiki Hobbit page but no answer. Also found this thread where the guy
offers it ( <a href="http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/01/msg00292.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#000000">http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/01/msg00292.html</font>
</a> )
so emailed him just today.</span></font></span></div>
<div><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Anyone knows about any other option? Afraid that the
customer does not go for Hobbit without possibility to have
support.</span></font></span></div>
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<div><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Thanks,</span></font></span></div>
<div><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Pavel H<span>ampl</span></font></font></span><br></div>
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