It indeed seems very uncertain.  The only information I received was that
IBM had withdrawn a BMR promotion.  They said that the announcement did
withdraw the BMR from TSM from marketing.  But, not promoting the product
can't be a good sign.

Here's what I received...


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>|VERITAS Acquisition of The Kernal Group: Strategy Update and U.S. and
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>|Canada Promotion Withdrawal
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>On January 1, 2002, VERITAS Software Corporation acquired The Kernal Group
>Inc., the developer of Bare Metal Restore. VERITAS is our chief competitor
>in the area of storage management solutions. Bare Metal Restore is a
>disaster recovery solution for Windows and Unix environments that
>integrates with Tivoli Storage Manager. IBM has a contract in place to
>resell Bare Metal Restore for Tivoli Storage Manager, with support and
>maintenance provided by The Kernal Group (now VERITAS) until March 2003.
>
>Due to this situation, IBM announced yesterday, January 15, 2002, the
>immediate withdrawal of the current promotion in the United States and
>Canada for Bare Metal Restore for Tivoli Storage Manager. Although IBM has
>withdrawn the promotion, we will continue to ship products previously
>ordered under the promotion through February 15, 2002. However, this
>announcement does not withdraw the Bare Metal Restore for Tivoli Storage
>Manager product from marketing. Orders can still be placed, but are no
>longer eligible for the promotional discount.