My experience with support issues with different vendors
Part of my job is to open support tickets, issues, cases, etc. to get help with hardware or software problems. The quality level varies. Here is my satisfaction level depending on the vendor (alphabetical order, with the products I've created tickets for in parenthesis): BSD Perimeter (pfSense): Excellent. Very knowledgeable and their support contract is an hourly rate, so they don't mind working for you and they'll help as much as they can. Always provided suggestions or solutions up to now. APC (UPS): Well, when you discover that your UPS needs a replacement under warranty and they only promise that they will ship it tomorrow (it took about 5 days to reach our office), you don't really care about how good the support may be. At least they do make good products. Dell/Compellent (Storage Array): Very good. Good knowledge base, helpfull techs, quality products as well (meaning we don't need to call them except for firmware updates, for which they...