It appears that Boulder, Colorado-based Spectra Logic Inc has run into difficulty adding support for SAP AG’s R/3 to its Alexandria Backup Librarian software. The company said it has now got support for R/3 on top of Oracle, but in trying to achieve native access, the company ran into some performance problems, which it did not specify. It had been promised for this quarter. Informix support comes next, followed by Sybase R11, but R/3 is not really on the front of our plate, and has now slipped back to around the first quarter of next year. Meanwhile, the company has added support for IBM Corp’s 3494 Tape Library Dataserver using the IBM Magstar 3590 tape drives to its Alexandria Backup Librarian software. It says that each IBM 3494 can be shared simultaneously by up to 16 different hosts in heterogeneous Unix environments.
