> I agree with Jeff.. ADSM needs to bring HSM functionality in for NT and
> Novell.  We have a need in both places, but Novell is currently the
> biggest need.  I'm trialing AvailHSM right now, but it sounds like
> that's going away with future to be OpenStor for NT5.0 which will have
> Novell clients as well as NT clients.   Maybe they'll do the pricing a
> little different by then..  at any rate, if ADSM is going to be a true
> storage manager, it needs to offer that capability.

What makes people think they'll add HSM for NT and Novell when we still
don't have it for AIX 4.2 after how long now.......  We've given up
waiting on IBM to deliver it as we need to upgrade from AIX 4.1 to 4.2
our SP complex and are evaluating other products.

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