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James - For the $$ questions I strongly advise you talk to your sales rep. We will make it simple for you and your scenario. It's great to see real world concepts and we are workin…

from our FAQ at http://www.chef.io/bmc-faq/ "All Chef’s software is mission critical and runs in a variety of different use cases and environments. As a result, we have not impleme…

Correct - Essentials is just a low cost suite of Chef products. We offer two suites,. Effortless Infrastructure, focused on core config mgmt and security/compliance use cases and E…

@antoncohen - We will provide easily installable downloads for non-commercial, experimentation, and individual use which should make getting started with Chef just as easy today as…

Today we have two easy methods for getting Chef's bits. 1) www.chef.io/get-chef/ - which is intended for newer users where we collect contact information so we can help with custom…

We have an email address on the landing page for folks like you -- cloudplatformstartups@google.com -- ping us, send us details, we'll get you over and take care of you. It's reall…

We could get into and endless debate about SLA's, their meaning, and their value. I don't think our bar for GA and the SLA are correlated. nknighthb's interpretation is correct. Th…

I know that's the historical wisdom but we are working very and investing heavily to make sure that isn't true in general, and specifically for Cloud Platform. We've scaled our sup…

Roger, sorry to hear this. Can you ping me at bgold at google.com so I can make sure you are getting the right help? Thanks!

The guys at Scalr were working on some benchmarking AFAIK. It's not up yet but I expect it will be soon-ish. http://blog.scalr.com/

regular maintenance helps with reliability because we do a lot of work proactively with power, hvac, switches, etc. which reduces likelihood of failure. Being able to perform maint…

We actually have come a long way in Support and now offer affordable paid support options and some very high end packages for mission critical operations. Check out https://cloud.g…

Stay tuned - Getting custom image support and custom kernels so you can run things like Docker is just around the corner. -Brian (@bgoldy)