Not So. Check with IBM. Look at the adsm license management system. Linux clients are FREE. They're not even tracked. The tradeoff is that the linux client is not supported. Good thing it works so well.
Where I work, we add native linux clients to our IBM ADSM central backup system FREE, whereas all other platform clients require paying license fees. After the one-time cost for the server software, the massive cost is in client connections EXCEPT for linux. So at least in this context our linux boxes are "enterprise ready". In fact, the free linux clients include all the admin features as well as a gui backup/restore web-enabled interface.
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Not So. Check with IBM. Look at the adsm license management system. Linux clients are FREE. They're not even tracked. The tradeoff is that the linux client is not supported. Good thing it works so well.
Where I work, we add native linux clients to our IBM ADSM central backup system FREE, whereas all other platform clients require paying license fees. After the one-time cost for the server software, the massive cost is in client connections EXCEPT for linux. So at least in this context our linux boxes are "enterprise ready". In fact, the free linux clients include all the admin features as well as a gui backup/restore web-enabled interface.