RE: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-)

First of all, thank you to everone for their responses on this topic.  I had no intention of instigating such a long thread when I sent the first email, and I apologize that this post is off topic for -current.

That said, I guess this would be a good time to let the cat out of the bag:

Over the past 6 months, we (the HP ProLiant software team) have been working with Peter Wemm and Paul Saab to develop a basic ProLiant health driver for FreeBSD.  The new driver leverages portions of our Unix and Linux health drivers.  We will be making this available soon to the larger FreeBSD community as a beta test.  The driver will not be officially supported or warrantied by HP, but we will do our best to make sure it works and is useful.  I will send an email to -current to announce its availability.

Thanks again to Peter and Paul.  Without their help this would not have been possible!

Please send any followup questions directly to my email address.

Thanks,
John
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John Cagle     john.cagle_at_hp.com
Principal Member Technical Staff
   Industry Standard Servers
    Hewlett-Packard Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:31 PM
> To: obrien_at_freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-)
> 
> 
> FreeBSD is not currently an officially supported operating 
> system, but we're doing as much as we can to ensure that 
> FreeBSD (-stable &
> -current) will install and run well on ProLiant servers.  We 
> also provide some technical support to the maintainers of the 
> bge and ciss drivers.
> 
> To provide official "tier-one" support (drivers for advanced 
> features, management agents, deployment software, regression 
> testing, customer support, services, etc.) would be very 
> costly, and, at this time, the FreeBSD market share numbers 
> don't support that level of investment.
> 
> Regards,
> John
> --------------------------------
> John Cagle     john.cagle_at_hp.com
> Principal Member Technical Staff
>    Industry Standard Servers
>     Hewlett-Packard Company
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David O'Brien [mailto:obrien_at_freebsd.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 7:01 PM
> > To: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
> > Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:12:55PM -0500, Cagle, John
> > (ISS-Houston) wrote:
> > > FWIW, some of the benefits of running a health driver (on a
> > supported
> > > OS) are:
> > 
> > Is FreeBSD a supported OS?
> > 
> > --
> > -- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
> >