From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 07:12:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B2816A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:12:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (cs1.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B8043D49 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32] ident=danny) by cs1.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1BfZGI-000K5E-LH; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:12:06 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dan Nelson In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:31:01 -0500 . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:12:06 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: <20040630071237.E9B8043D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q's about IBM TSM (was Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compatheaded for history) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:12:38 -0000 > 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