If a customer wants to buy AIX box or ESS most of the times he/she will
prefer to get the other instead of going into multi-vendor implementation.
If Sun allow customers to get ESS attached to their boxes too often they may
also loose box sales. For this reasons AIX/ESS and Sun/EMC are usually
bundled together. AIX/EMC or Sun/ESS are much more rarely used. I've not
seen any market research what is the percentage of AIX/ESS vs. Sun/ESS or
Sun/EMC vs. Sun/ESS but would expect it can be 8:1 or similar. It was
already pointed in this thread that sales of TDP for EMC/Sun or TDP for
ESS/AIX are not so high. And we cannot expect efforts to be wasted on less
prospective area. Paul, had you any success with product development manager
?

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant



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Subject:        Re: LANFREE Backups - Feedback?

Tivoli has sold so few copies of this that they have no justification to
develop the  other options right now.  I need the ESS/Solaris option. Maybe
the prevalence of SAN now will change this story.  I will talk to the
product development manager again tomorrow about this issue.