Rich, I am very happy to see Dartware making InterMapper Server available on multiple platforms. It has been a battle for me to use the product I like so much because management did not want a Mac in it's monitoring production environment. At my last job, had was able to convince them to use it until they deployed something else. I am now showing it at my new job who is using enterprise systems for monitoring under Solaris and Win2K. We are using HPOV and Lucent products among others. I now have the opportunity to introduce InterMapper when it becomes availble on Solaris Sparc. I look forward to it. I think Dartware is really going to take off now that you are on so many platforms. Let me know when the stock will become available :-)
-John Marino --- "Richard E. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To our InterMapper Customers: > > --- Ed Konowal wrote: > I just saw it. InterMapper available for Windows. > > Recall back in 2000 when you (Bill Fisher, Rich > Brown and Dartmouth College) > decided to "spin InterMapper out as a separate > company"? My stated concern > at that time was that you'd loose focus on the Mac > and divert resources to > develop a Windows version. > > I expected it. I HATE it, but I expected it. > What's next? Sell the > program to Microsoft? It's all about profit now. > > I understand... I'm just so disappointed to actually > see the first steps, of > this fantastic program, now headed toward > mediocrity. > > A very, very sad day. > --- end of quote --- > > I knew that we would get this reaction when we > announced our cross platform > version, and I thank Ed for stating it so clearly. > > Of course, you're right. This *is* a business > decision. By any measure, the > Macintosh is a minority platform. And in order to > fund the developments that we > all want to see in the program, Dartware must > increase the market we can sell > to. > > That's why we have chosen to make it a > cross-platform program that works equally > well on Macintosh, Windows and Unix/Linux. The > Windows version is available now; > RedHat, FreeBSD, and Solaris x86 are in testing. > We'll roll out Solaris SPARC > soon, as well as other Unix/Linux distributions as > we get requests from > customers. > > And please don't worry about our plans for the > Macintosh. The same source code > compiles every version: from the Mac Classic > version, MacOS X, Windows > NT/2000/XP, and the Linux/Unix versions. I should > also note that creating this > cross-platform version has made InterMapper more > robust - it helped us find many > intriguing bugs that were latent in the Mac source > code base. Finally, we edit > all the source files using a Mac, and we have *no* > plans to change that anytime > soon. > > We expect to maintain feature parity between all > these versions for the > forseeable future. Our recommendation is to keep up > your support subscription > for InterMapper and InterMapper Remote. You'll > automatically get the new > features as we release them. > > Please get back to me, either on this list or > off-line, if you want to discuss > this more. Thanks again! > > Rich Brown > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dartware, LLC > http://www.dartware.com > 10 Buck Road, PO Box 130 Telephone: > 603-643-2268 > Hanover, NH 03755-0130 USA Fax: 603-643-2289 > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Note: To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please > send email to: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________________ Note: To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send email to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks!
