Re: Support for Tomcat

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that crap came about from Lotus products and their support...

Need help with Notes ??? call Lotus (but that may have changed)

Are you sure "TomCat" has EVER been considered a LPP ????

I don't think they took an open source and made it a LPP.....


Joe Pluta wrote:

> It seems that at a recent tech conference of some kind, an individual (who,
> according to different sources, may or may not have been an IBM person)
> announced that Tomcat would "no longer be supported" on the iSeries.
>
> Flabbergasted, I asked a bunch of questions, and while there was no real
> consensus, the general opinion seemed to be that while IBM would continue to
> ship Tomcat as an LPP, they would not include it in their normal support -
> you would instead "go to Tomcat" to get support, because "that's what
> everybody else does".  I was a little too stunned to point out that there is
> in fact no company named Tomcat, that it's an entirely open-sourced project,
> and that it comes from the same people who wrote Apache, which IBM seems to
> support 100%.  That may have been because I was busy trying to get my brain
> around the idea that IBM would ship an LPP as part of the base operating
> system yet refuse to support it.
>