We were contracted by a reseller's rep before the end of last year. She told us we would be entitled to a free upgrade from budtool to legato networker. We already have BT in place and running, so I am assuming we just swao one license for another.
A netapps rep told me he believed Legatto only aquired budtool for the NDMP functions it offers, therefore, I cant see it appearing in the product to heavily.
Simon
-----Original Message----- From: dnb@ccs.neu.edu [mailto:dnb@ccs.neu.edu] Sent: 12 January 2000 00:08 To: Jay Orr Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Budtool and NetWorker
Jay Orr orrjl@stl.nexen.com writes:
Has anyone that uses Budtool to backup gotten any details about the option to upgrade to NetWorker?
I spoke to our local Legato rep about this right before Y2k and he was a wealth of "don't know yet" answers. He was sure they would have an "upgrade" program for exisiting customers, but not for a while. Apparently they are going to avoid an EOL for Budtool until the end of '00 and still sell it as a separate product until then.
In the meantime, they are supposedly integrating Budtool into their standard Legato framework. He made it sound like Budtool would be a module as part of their usual stuff. It sounds like the folks in the field haven't heard yet because they haven't figured it out at the Legato homebase either. He suggested I contact his inside sales person, but I have not done that.
Summary: nice soothing noises, but no real information
Respectfully, David N. Blank-Edelman Director of Technology College of Computer Science Northeastern University