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Old 4th May 2011
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If OpenBSD had more commercial support it could be widely used on the desktop and in particular on thin-clients...in academia administrative computing is often restricted by various state regulations...'U.S. businesses are very uneasy about deployment of an open source OS without support '
I'm very curious about requirements companies or agencies tend to have which prevent these systems from being deployed. Are support contracts seen as a separate entity from the IT Staff who would otherwise be managing the infrastructure on a day-to-day basis? In other words, wouldn't a competent and qualified team be sufficient enough to have an organization deploy OpenBSD on a mass scale? Or are companies wary about deploying these systems because they don't feel there are enough qualified professionals to manage them?

Being as there are smaller vendors who provide commercial support, would they qualify as being an approved vendor or does vendor size matter? The Undeadly.org journal recently spotlighted a European-based OpenBSD solutions provider for example and here in the USA, iX Systems provide BSD Support as do various smaller consultancies/companies.

Also does this tie into what is called PCI compliance or auditing?
I'm just really curious about how this process works hence all the questions.

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