"Norman P. B. Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What are AFS sites doing for support through IBM? I need a sanity check.
>
> My last AFS support/maintenance contract only ran 7 months and will expire at
> the end of January (IBM would not extend the period of performance past then).
> The pro-rated annual cost for this would have run about $8,000. But talking
> to IBM's Support Line, they're telling me that supporting our 7 servers (3
> linux DB servers & 4 Solaris file servers) is now going to cost me $34,000
> annually! -And- if I want product updates I'll have to pay additionally for
> software subscriptions.
>
> Are other sites seeing the same thing, or am I just talking to the wrong people
> at IBM, or asking for the wrong things (or did Transarc spoil me <g>)?
> Certainly other sites are in the midst of having to work this out. What's
> been your experiences?
Well, I've heard the same thing, FWIW. I'm leaving Dartmouth
next week, so I don't know what the official posture is going to
be, but if I were staying, I'd investigate (a) OpenAFS and (b)
<shudder> NFS.
IBM is really pricing themselves out of this ballpark. And you
can't even get patches from AFS-land anymore! Feh.
If someone else has a different story, I'm sure we'd all
appreciate hearing it.
Pat Wilson
Dartmouth College (until 1/5)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
