Re: Tomcat support

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan,

I would be very surprised if there is more than one person working part

time on Tomcat integration for the iSeries at IBM. I have never seen a

bug or patch for Tomcat from IBM. Although it would be nice to see an
iSeries specific IBM representative committing to the project it is not

necessary for Tomcat to succeed on the iSeries. IBM does make up
for some of this in the Xerces, Xalan, Avalon, Gump, and other
projects.

David Morris


>>> nandelin@relational-data.com 03/20/02 03:43PM >>>
> From: "Patrick L Archibald"
> Bob I hope you are correct on that.  I'm banking
> on it.  Tomcat is a great application server and the
> price is just right!

The question is whether Tomcat indirectly generates enough hardware or
service contracts for IBM.  For IBM to justify having 3-4 people
supporting
Tomcat, the indirect revenue needs to be about $1 million annually.
But
without a software license fee, it's hard for the accountants to know
that
Tomcat generates revenue.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com