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GNU Based on 6 reviews.	Pivotal Based on 52 reviews.
Overview
GNU i The combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel is commonly known as Linux. Development of the GNU operating system was initiated by Richard Stallman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a project called the GNU Project which was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups by Richard Stallman.	Information Not Available
Sample Customers
	Concourse: Verizon, Cerner, Zipcar, Avarteq
Popular Solutions
GNU Make 2 reviews	RabbitMQ 22 reviews Pivotal Greenplum 5 reviews Spring MVC 2 reviews
Top Comparisons
Jenkins vs. GNU Make Compared 72% of the time.	Jenkins vs. Concourse Compared 47% of the time.
Top Industries
No Data Available	Financial Services Firm 34% Comms Service Provider 12% Transportation Company 10% Manufacturing Company 8%

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Most Helpful Reviews

Alexander Melnyk
Software Engineer at a tech vendor
How has it helped my organization?: GNU Make is such an essential tool that it is almost impossible to imagine...
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Altan Gokcek
IT Software Engineer at a financial services firm
What is most valuable?: High performance Integration with Spring Framework Easy installation and configuration ...
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Ken Ramirez
Consultant: Senior Architect/Technical Lead at a manufacturing company
What is our primary use case?: The organization I’m currently consulting for is performing a lift-and-shift, moving...
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SurendranathC
Principal Architect at a tech services company
What is our primary use case?: Mostly REST service and web application development on RDBMS products • What is...
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Robert Herrick
Director - Information Technology at a transportation company
What is most valuable?: The most valuable feature of RabbitMQ is the ability to set up workflows simply with...
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Ent32Sltn9
Enterprise Solutions Architect / Big Data Architect at a security firm
What is our primary use case?: Our use of this solution is related to creating microservices, based on...
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Customer Service

Michael Savisko
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company
There’s no support for this product, it’s open source.
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Alexander Melnyk
Software Engineer at a tech vendor
There is no technical support. As with all GNU software, GNU Make is distributed "as-is" with no warranty and no...
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Sharon Gafner
DB Manager at a marketing services firm
Customer Service: It's good. Technical Support: It's good.
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Barath Ravichander
Data Engineer at Broadridge Financial Solutions
I would rate technical support as good and there is not much technical expertise at the start of the SR.
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Himanshu Paliwal
Technical Lead
Customer Service: Excellent. Technical Support: Excellent.
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MikePluta
Senior Enterprise Technical Architect at a software R&D company
The service and support we’ve received from both Pivotal and EMC has been exemplary. The exceptions to this would be:...
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Barath Ravichander
Data Engineer at Broadridge Financial Solutions
Customer Service: On a scale of 10 I would rate it as 7 Technical Support: On a scale of 10 I would rate it as 8
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AndrewFerguson
Software Engineer
I haven't used any technical support yet.
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Gareth Crawshaw
Consultant at a financial services firm
I have not raised any service issues/tech queries, so I can’t really say.
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Ashraf Eid
Information Architecture Specialist (TOGAF Certified) at a comms service provider
We hired one DB admin for Greenplum. If he faces any issues he opens tickets with the vendor, but most of the issues,...
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SurendranathC
Principal Architect at a tech services company
There is wide support availability on the stack overflow and there is a lot of documentation on the web.
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OussamaBenreskallah
Senior Data Warehouse Developer at a comms service provider
Good. I would give their technical support a seven out of 10.
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Keith Sohl
Senior Developer/Architect at a tech services company
We have not used technical support.
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Barath Ravichander
Data Engineer at Broadridge Financial Solutions
Customer Service: They have a quick turn around but to dig into the actual information takes time, based on the...
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Nikola Tzaprev
Head of Cloud Platform Development at a tech vendor
I have never used support.
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Statistician376
Statistician at a financial services firm
We had a pre-sales consultant who provided end-end solution about the product. Also, he was working with our data and...
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Anonymous User
Research Assistant at a university
Very good. 8/10.
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Anonymous User
Data Warehouse Specialist at a comms service provider
Customer Service: 8/10 Technical Support: 8/10
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Anonymous User
Graduate Teaching Assistant at a university
The technical support is generally good in terms of being a nice and active user forum that has good documentation.
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Anonymous User
Sr. Data Operation Engineer at a marketing services firm
Customer Service: It's very poor. Technical Support: It's very poor.
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Robert Herrick
Director - Information Technology at a transportation company
RabbitMQ is an open-source project, so the level of tech support is relatively low. The documentation is adequate....
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Anonymous User
Mid Level Software Engineer at a tech services company
We never used technical support.
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Anonymous User
IT Consultant at a retailer
Customer Service: Customer service is OK. Technical Support: Technical support is OK.
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Anonymous User
Technical Lead at a tech services company
Technical support is excellent.
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Anonymous User
Senior Business Intelligence Developer at a tech services company
The community around GreenPlum is very small, making it difficult to learn from others experience via forums or blog...
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Anonymous User
Sr. Software Engineer at a financial services firm
Very good. Response times are good for service calls.
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Anonymous User
VP of Software at a manufacturing company
We did not use their technical support much.
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Julien Hayotte
Software architect & back-end engineer at a tech services company
The documentation from the internet is good.
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Jay Sardhara
Full Stack Developer Intern at a tech vendor
I would give the technical support a 7/10 rating.
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Andrew-Ferguson
Software Engineer at a tech vendor
We never used technical support.
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Anonymous User
BI Data Engineer at a tech vendor
The response is fairly good but would like more support from the R&D on more complex issues. Also, they need to...
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Anonymous User
Senior Technical Engineer at a tech company
The ongoing response from their support on certain technical issues has been slow. It would help if we can have a...
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