Re: Support for Tomcat

Joe,

IBM does not need to support Tomcat. How can IBM support
a product that they have no control over? The same goes for
Xerces, Xalan, VNC, Perl, and all of the other open source
products that IBM distributes on the iSeries. They do need
to support Java and the technologies on the iSeries that
Tomcat relies on. I use all of these extensively on the iSeries
and have not ever seen where IBM could have helped with a
support issue. I have submitted bugs and patches for these
products to the Apache Software Foundation and have been
very pleased with the response.

A trimmed down version of Tomcat is shipped with the Apache
Web server, and IBM does provide some level of support for
the administration console enhancements. I would also guess
that IBM will help a customer who is willing to pay.

David Morris

>>> mboceanside@worldnet.att.net 03/20/02 02:16PM >>>
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.
>