The problem for the industry analyst many times is if the recommend IBM
every time, then why do we need them.  They make a lot of money being
courted by vendors.  If this was written by Stan Zaffos, then it is a
straight up view of the solutions based on his perception, but as always,
these views are influenced by what a customer says about the products not
necessarily an architectural or indepth study of the functionality,
reliabitility, availability, and serviceability.

If one does a true comparison of the functionality they require for their
business and look at the hardware requirement differences and TCO, TSM wins
everytime.  However, as technicians many time we select what is thought to
be the best just because a lot of other people think so.

The issue remains that TSM is "incremental forever" and some people just are
not smart enough to figure out that Veritas is using that as a marketing
ploy.  There are some new features coming down the road in TSM that will
continue to erode the ability of the competitors to use this as a weapon
against them.  A weapon that is more like a toy gun.  It looks/sounds real
but it isn't.  If Tivoli would just build a calculator that could scan the
customers file system and show based on a 14 day period how much less tape
and hardware they need, the war would be over.