Well... I'm not exactly dismayed that we announced the pre-installation
sooner than originally planned. ;-)

I *am*, however, dismayed that Tivoli hasn't mentioned one word about
this platform. I can see where a full-function GUI client may take them
a little time to complete, but the underlying API of MacOS X is BSD
Unix. I'd expect a command line only client would be easy enough to port
at least on an unsupported basis to accommodate the early adopters. I
work in Apple's data center and have had a tremendous need for a MacOS X
client for many months now. I have upwards of 200 boxes running the
Rhapsody-based MacOS X Server - soon to be upgraded to the
Mach/BSD-based 10.0 release. This is just data center machines doing web
server and NetInfo services. Seems to me to be a very attractive
platform to pursue since Dante's Retrospect is the only backup
application with a MacOS X client (to a MacOS 9.1-based server).


On Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 06:57 AM, Gretchen L. Thiele wrote:

Much to my dismay, Apple announced yesterday at the start of the
WWDC that they would start shipping all new Macs with OS X along
with OS 9.1 as of yesterday. They will dual boot 9.1 and X, but
I'm sure the pressure to go to OS X will be strong.

We're getting more and more Macs and I can't back them up with
the current TSM client (at least not the OS X stuff). Is there
a committment to creating an OS X client or should I start looking
for another backup product? I hate to bring in another server
because the single backup product strategy has been such a good
thing for us - especially in terms of support costs and personnel.


Gretchen Thiele
Princeton University