From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 14:31:07 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 CEA5616A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:31:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F34443D49 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:31:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i5TEV1xf016214; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:31:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:31:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Daniel Lang Message-ID: <20040629143101.GC81324@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1088385053.18392.3.camel@newton.aipo.gov.au> <20040628192527.1C2755C29@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> <20040629075138.GB74930@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040629075138.GB74930@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Carl Makin cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Paul Seniura Subject: Re: Q's about IBM TSM (was Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed 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: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:31:07 -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 :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com