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[Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-16 13:55:24
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
From: jpiszcz.backup AT gmail DOT com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:55:24 -0400
RedHat.

On 5/16/06, Dongfang_Liao AT kaltire DOT com <Dongfang_Liao AT kaltire DOT com> 
wrote:
> Just curiously, which support vendor do you guys use for Linux OS?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
> Lightner
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:58 AM
> To: Greenberg, Katherine A; Paul Keating; Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas
> List
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
>
> As compared to Windows or Unix?  In the Unix app environments I'm
> running we see several opportunities for cost savings just on the
> hardware alone.  The support is significantly cheaper as well.  On the
> flip side there ARE things (large DBs for example) that we aren't going
> to move to Linux any time soon because at scale its complexity is worse
> than the RISC based systems AND a lot of what we want to run isn't
> supported on Linux at such scales in any event.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:53 PM
> To: Jeff Lightner; Paul Keating; Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
>
> Interesting, since every vendor I've spoken to who manages any kind of
> costing group for customers has had to work REALLY hard to justify the
> costing for using Linux in the enterprise....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner AT water DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:49 PM
> To: Paul Keating; Greenberg, Katherine A; Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas
> List
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
>
>
> There IS dollar savings even if you go the commercial Linux variants and
> pay for support as compared to commercial Unix (especially the RISC
> based solutions).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul
> Keating
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:06 PM
> To: Greenberg, Katherine A; Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
>
> Honestly though, that smacks of management thinking Linux is free (as in
> beer) rather than free (as in speech.)
>
> Any question like that coming from mgmt is usually related to percieved
> dollar savings.
>
> Paul
>
> --
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> > Greenberg, Katherine A
> > Sent: May 10, 2006 1:28 PM
> > To: Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List
> > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
> >
> >
> > I don't honestly know of a single company these days that
> > isn't looking
> > at Linux for one reason or another...
> >
> > Unless you aren't. And then I'll know of one :)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dhotre,
> > Shekhar
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:23 PM
> > To: Scott Jacobson; Ed Wilts; List Veritas List
> > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
> >
> >
> > >>I've been asked by my management why we're not using Linux for
> > NetBackup
> >
> >
> > Any particular reason -your management is interested in Linux ?
>
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