[OpenAFS] IBM withdrawing AFS

[Ken Hornstein]

>IMHO, this is sad and I do not understand why it's happened.

I can't speak for anyone else, but as a long-time AFS customer IBM
refused to honor our contract with Transarc (which was questionable to us
from a legal sense) and was not willing to work with us on the issue.
So we never ended up purchasing AFS from them, even though we would have
preferred to have commercial support _and_ we had the dollars to do it.
I heard similar things from a number of other sites that I exchanged email
with privately.

I also never saw IBM at any of the AFS Workshops I went to (but I
didn't go to all of them).  So it didn't seem to me like IBM really
wanted to be in the AFS business if they a) couldn't figure out how to
make it reasonable for us to purchase AFS, and b) didn't seem interested
in hearing from their user community.  So it doesn't surprise me that
it happened; how long can you reasonably expect to sell a product that
you don't want to sell and that no one buys?

--Ken