I hardly consider what Stephen did to be shilling.  He's a long-time
contributor to the list with hundreds of posts to his credit.  He's
obviously not happy with how NBU handles this particular area of
functionality and decided to move to CommVault because of it.

The list is a NBU list, but if someone who knows NBU well thinks that a
given customer's problem would best be solved by investigating another
product, then I don't see why they can't mention it.  For example,
someone else recommended looking into Illuminator, which is a 3rd party
reporting product, and didn't recommend Veritas Backup Reporter.  If
he/she truly felt it was a better product for them, then they should be
allowed to mention it.  Now, if we find someone from the competitor
posting on here just to mention their product, then let's get the
guillotine. 

As to CommVault being a product "no one has ever heard of," many people
consider it to be the "#4" of the "Big 3."  They're not a perfect
product, and I actually disagree that it doesn't need a third-party
reporting product, but, they're definitely innovating in some areas,
especially that of Windows-oriented backups.  As for me, I've told them
I'm not interested until they offer a server that runs on Unix/Linux.

---
W. Curtis Preston
Author of O'Reilly's Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS
VP Data Protection
GlassHouse Technologies


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:45 AM
To: Wilkinson, Alex; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] [ORACLE] Policy Naming ... Best Practices ?

This guy has come here to shill another product (i.e. Comvault) that no
one has ever heard of and you're encouraging him?   In my book this is
spam.  This list is about Veritas NetBackup isn't it?

-----Original Message-----
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Wilkinson, Alex
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] [ORACLE] Policy Naming ... Best Practices ?

    0n Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:18:42PM -0400, Steven L. Sesar wrote: 

    > As you are yours. Bottom line: my company procured another backup
application, which provides much more functionality than NBU, 
    > for the cost of renewing my NBU licenses for one year. Haven't had
to write a single line of code to support it. Haven't had to 
    > spend $50K and up for a 3rd. party reporting tool. Haven't had to
deal with NBCC, because the data and metadata is stored in a 
    > relational database. Should I go on?

Whats the product ?

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