[Gllug] Veritas for Linux

[Simon Trimmer]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> John Hearns(john.hearns at framestore-cfc.com)@Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:15:58PM +0000:
> > http://www.veritas.com/news/press/PressReleaseDetail.jhtml?NewsId=9483

Works for me (in Galeon), but it wouldn't surprise me if marketing had put up
a windows-only web page.

> > I think enquiring minds need to know more. (Simon, Mark?)

It's factually correct in a marketing kind of way.

> Ouch, it's certainly expensive.

You missed the "prices starting at". The interesting bit is people who've
already paid out on other platforms say it's almost too cheap....


> i know it offers a lot, but heck, i'd be tempted to go for one of the
> commercial unixen, which has similar stuff included in the OS.
>
> well, actually, i probably wouldnt, but thats a tough choice for a SA.

You'll be happy to know some of the commercial OSes do have bits of the
foundation suite in them ;) Anyway, I guess it all depends on how seriously
you want to use Linux, half of us on the list could recite the reasons why
people are hesitant to deploy Linux in (yuck) enterprise roles.

I'm going to regret this... :)

So, I've avoided talking about this stuff because a) (we all know) the
community is natually cynical about big companies and binary drivers b) I'm
not a salesman and c) I use the vxvm and vxfs but don't actively develop
them.

Knowing the people on the list I'd expect a mixture of Vince's response and
general argument that the community developed software is as good or better
without knowing much about either :)

It's a new port but the core technologies aren't new, it's mostly common code
that is shared between the different platforms. If we were placing bets on
filesystem or volume integrity I know where I'd put my money...

Is anyone really interested in this?

-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>







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