Sys Admin Market Place
Posted in Ubuntu, Ubuntu-ie on 08/09/2010 01:07 pm by Laura CzajkowskiI was recently at the Ubuntu Hour in Limerick and a discussion came up…… If a company switched to using Ubuntu or any form of open source alternative, is there support for them out there. I assumed there would be to be honest, I know a lot of people work as sys admins and who using Debian/Ubuntu, but did they provide support.
After doing some Googling and poking folks on IRC I found out a few things. There is the Market place on the Canonical website which shows 5 companies offering some form of support. Not a lot really when you look at other countries. Yet the people I spoke to who run their own companies or work as contractors are not listed on there. So that made me wonder is this the first port of call and if so people may not be as fully informed as they could be.
With that in mind I’ve done up a short quick and simple wiki page to list as many as I can find who provide support for all forms of server maintenance, desktop migration or anything else open source related not just Ubuntu. If people don’t want to edit the wiki page that’s fine, you can just drop me an email with the details and I can edit it.
08/09/2010 at 2:32 PM
There is a direct link to the marketplace:
https://forms.canonical.com/marketplace/
However, *anyone* can add themselves to the marketplace or to the wiki.
I suppose locoteams listing local help would be more effective *in addition* to encouraging them adding their names to the marketplace. Then much like the monthly reports there could be a master “Ubuntu sysadmins for hire, anywhere” wiki page.