Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

[Keith Weatherhead]

D . Thomas Podnar wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:48:48AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> 
>>>>Backupedge, gone. (though I would still highly recommend, practically
>>>>require it for traditional single_server_no_IT_guy shops.)
> 
> Sorry to hear that, Brian.

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>>And it is true that I don't use BE on most of my boxes,
> 
> I'm VERY sorry to hear that.
> 
>>But that said, I really have no problem with BE as a product or Microlite as 
>>a company. I probably should not have lumped BE in with this group in this 
>>context. It sounds like I resent them and really I don't. There are a few 
>>different reasons why I don't use BE on most of my boxes but they are mostly 
>>simply that BE isn't the right type of product for those boxes. Sort of like 
>>how I also no longer use Olympus TuneUP. TuneUP's license is very strict 
>>also, although I don't seem to remember it breaking especially easily, or 
>>causing functional breakage while the licence was broken (I think the 
>>current modified kernel continues to run and continues to have the same 
>>tuned-up settings, but merely you can't adjust them any more, other than to 
>>revert back to pre-install) but mostly it just doesn't apply to me any more 
>>as it is simply a SCO-specific product. BE basically just doesn't apply for 
>>most of my boxes, but it's not any sort of fault or failing.
> 
> 
> Simply a SCO-specific product? Boy, have you not been paying attention.
> 
> Linux represents 41% of my 2007 business (Jan 1 - Sep 15). AIX has another, although smaller, percentage.
> 
> I'll put my bare metal disaster recovery and encryption capabilities for Linux against any product you want to name. And our support for storage deveices, D2D and network backups is outstanding.
>

Tom,

I too agree you have a great product, but unless I read it wrong, 
Brian made NO REFERENCE to your product being SCO Only, I believe he 
said Olympus Tune-Up was.

Not every product is for everybody, maybe asking for a better 
explaination where he felt your product was lacking would help you 
close that gap...

Regards,
Keith


> 
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> We expect to do our jobs well to earn peoples' business, and to be there when they need us. I'm sorry we've failed to do that for you. Certainly I can think of places where we aren't the right product, and we continue to try to improve our products in t
> hose areas. 
> 
> I'm not sure from your email whether you protect your client's systems with other commercial, or with "free" software. Look at all the dead projects on sourceforge. They go up with great fanfare, and last as long as the original developer maintains inte
> rest. Then they die, along with support, while the writer or writers bounc to the next "cool" thing. Not everyone can read sourcecode to solve a customer problem, or make changes when the next operating system update breaks the program.
> 
> Kindest regards,

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