21 Apr
2001
21 Apr
'01
9:42 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0700, Lance R. Bailey wrote:
filer companies and backup vendors are very happily and loudly proclaiming their relationships and working partnerships. IMNSHO part of that partnership should either be the format of the data stream or routines to manipulate it. either way would provide a h/w independant
Or, at the very least, get suitable clauses written into the purchase agreement to put the format and code to write/read it into escrow, to be released if the supplier goes to the wall or ceases to provide support/service for that format. I'm sure company legal advisors have the suitable wording.
James.