Before anybody emails me 8-)

        I'll retract my statement about writing your own adsm
        client for linux.. since the ADSM API requires you to have
        the trusted agent client along with the IBM supplied API library.
        (eg. it's not an API just defined on paper 8-( )

        -richard-

On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 05:40:37PM -0500, Ben Kokenge wrote:
> OK, I know this has been mentioned here before, but I think it is
> time again; when is ADSM going to produce a Linux Client?
>
> Oracle, Informix, Ingres, Corel's entire suite, plus a whole list of
> little people have software ported to Linux.  Right now we can
> run ADSM for SCO ver2.1 client under Linux, but then we miss all
> the good stuff ver 3 gives.  I currently backup 18 Linux clients and
> they are asking why they can't do what the windows clients do.
>
> With ADSM supporting over thirty platforms, and huge names like
> Oracle and Informix porting to Linux; my question to all those IBM'ers
> reading this:  Why is there not a Linux client?
>
> Dismounts soap box,
> -Ben