Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:38:32 -0400 From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Q's about IBM TSM (was Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compatheaded for history) Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E86E71@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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> > 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
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