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