From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 14:38:34 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 3042B16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:38:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.housing.ufl.edu (smtp.housing.ufl.edu [128.227.47.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D5043D31 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:38:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from WillS@housing.ufl.edu) Received: (qmail 9223 invoked by uid 98); 29 Jun 2004 10:38:32 -0400 Received: from WillS@housing.ufl.edu by smtp.housing.ufl.edu by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(128.227.47.18):. Processed in 0.014571 secs); 29 Jun 2004 14:38:32 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: WillS@housing.ufl.edu via smtp.housing.ufl.edu X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20 (Clear:RC:1(128.227.47.18):. Processed in 0.014571 secs) Received: from bragi.housing.ufl.edu (128.227.47.18) by smtp.housing.ufl.edu with (RC4-MD5 encrypted) SMTP; 29 Jun 2004 10:38:32 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6556.0 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:38:32 -0400 Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E86E71@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Q's about IBM TSM (was Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compatheaded for history) Thread-Index: AcRd5cOZQSZqwwRgQQ24P/6Di9qrnAAAKMZw From: "Will Saxon" To: 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: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:38:34 -0000 > > 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=20 > 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). > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Casually mention that Veritas NetBackup supports FreeBSD and you were > wondering what the migration path might be :) It does? Under Linux emu I guess? Their product literature doesn't seem to claim it, so I never really=20 looked at it. I suspect there are a lot of folks like me who do the=20 same thing - making it difficult to really gauge demand. I know I would sure like a native version of 'DB2 Connect' for FreeBSD, but the numbers quoted above sound about like the numbers quoted when someone asked = about DB2 connect a year or two ago. -Will