Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:31:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: Paul Seniura <pdseniura@techie.com> Subject: Re: Q's about IBM TSM (was Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history) Message-ID: <20040629143101.GC81324@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040629075138.GB74930@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <1088385053.18392.3.camel@newton.aipo.gov.au> <20040628192527.1C2755C29@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> <20040629075138.GB74930@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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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 :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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