Re: Q's about IBM TSM (was Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compatheaded for history)

From: Danny Braniss <danny_at_cs.huji.ac.il>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:12:06 +0300
> In the last episode (Jun 29), Daniel Lang said:
> > Paul Seniura wrote on Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:25:27PM -0500:
> > [..]
> > > Excuse my butting-in, but TSM is quite important for us, too.
> > [..]
> > > FWIW, our support contract with IBM does cover TSM clients, but IBM
> > > won't consider a FreeBSD-native client despite their supporting
> > > their MacOSX client very well & officially.  IBM says they need
> > > more "user base" to even consider a BSD flavor... go figure...
> > [..]
> > 
> > I once polled users to get feedback about the demand for a BSD
> > client. Although I thought I got impressive numbers, the "offer" we
> > received was a joke (they would have charged 125,000 EUR for the port
> > of a 5.x client, support for this client would have cost another
> > 25000 EUR and there would have been no updates to future versions).
> > 
> > However, if you would like to make another attempt, I can send you
> > the E-Mail responses I have collected so far, to show them, that
> > there is some demand.
> 
> Casually mention that Veritas NetBackup supports FreeBSD and you were
> wondering what the migration path might be :)
>

but only as client!, the server side does not work,
even under Linux emulation :-(

danny
Received on Wed Jun 30 2004 - 05:12:38 UTC

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