We're still trying to find out what we have to buy from IBM in order to
retain the right to use certain AFS clients. (We'll most likely move to
OpenAFS based servers within the next year, or sooner if forced to by bad
licensing costs.) However, we need to be able to continue to use our
3.4a.5.x clients on hp-ux 10.20 machines, and sgi 6.5. Neither HP or SGI is
supported under OpenAFS yet, and HP-UX 10.20 has had support discontinued
for a long time by transarc.
-- Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 6:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: AFS support from IBM
>
>
>
> "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]
>
