Yes I believe when Tivoli looked at the development of the Timefinder
function they looked at the market first.  It was concluded that an EMC/Sun
solution represented the larger market share of what customer have
installed.

ie there are more EMC/Sun installed sites than there are EMC/Aix
sites.Mainly because Aix sites tend to be IBM disk solutions.

Therefore if you wnat to sell a product, develop for the majority first.  If
people like it and want it so make some more !  Vendors do make software for
there own products, so hopefully I see you purchasing lots of ESS soon then
!!

There's little point in doing costly developing for a product that no one
wants.  Yes the TDP for EMC has a VERY limited scole for configuration, and
no RS/6000 isn't in there I believe.

Specific products like this tend to be demand driven.  From what I
understand the current TDP/EMC saw a very limited uptake by customers.
There has also been little demand to expand is platform coverage in this
space.

The TDP for EMC was also on the market before the TDP for ESS/Flashcopy.
Thinking back I believe that is because EMC had the timefinder on the market
before IBM/ESS and flashcopy.  It was a while after before Tivoli got it's
hands on working Flashcopy to do any sort of development, and these thing
take time.

Back to the original point LAN-Free with TSM works backup and restore apart
from the above, and I'm running a 2 day workshop in the UK next week to show
it working and give hands on to those who want to know more.

Jason

PS.  These are my personal views and not that of IBM or Tivoli Corp.