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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:51:38 +0200
From:      Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org>
To:        Paul Seniura <pdseniura@techie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Q's about IBM TSM (was Re: HEADSUP:  ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history)
Message-ID:  <20040629075138.GB74930@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040628192527.1C2755C29@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us>
References:  <1088385053.18392.3.camel@newton.aipo.gov.au> <20040628192527.1C2755C29@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us>

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Hi Paul,

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.=20
> 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=20
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.

Best regards,
 Daniel
--=20
IRCnet: Mr-Spock                         - Der Zweite Platz ist Dreck -
 Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/

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