At 03:30 PM 3/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >EEEEK! I've got a thousand Macs, all of them headed for OS X
> >this summer. I heard that the Mac developer left and there was
> >some scrambling to get out a new Mac client that could actually
> >*restore* (thanks for that!), but to not support OS X would
> >be devastating for us.
>
>Tivoli should consider that Mac OS X is a Unix system, and as such could be
>folded into the Unix clients family, rather than being considered a separate
>animal as it has been heretofore. OS X is Unix with a gorgeous interface. (I
>just installed it this week, and as a Unix guy of two decades, can attest to
>it being exceptional. It makes Windows look sick.) Given the likelihood of OS
>X proliferating to platforms beyond the PowerPC, there is certainly a business
>case for Tivoli to treat this incarnation of the Mac operating system more
>seriously.
>
> Richard Sims, BU
I believe that MacOS X started shipping on March 24th, and that new
Macintoshes will start shipping with MacOS X pre-installed on them
beginning this summer. I agree with Richard's comments, but I'd be happy
if Tivoli treated MacOS X at least as seriously as they treated prior
versions of MacOS. This is not some strange flavor of MacOS that won't get
used much - this will be shipped on all new Macs. I've seen it - it's
slick. Here at Cornell, we have to have a backup solution for it.
An Apple rep told me that Retrospect is working on a version that supports
OS X. Is anyone aware of any other products (preferably enterprise-class)
that will support OS X?
..Paul
