Support for Tomcat

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was at MAMSUG (a midrange user's group) last night, and I heard a very
disturbing comment.  I didn't get all the details, and some of the details I
got were contradictory.  Please understand that the statement below may have
many discrepancies and that I certainly am not attesting to its veracity in
whole or part.  Instead, it's the overall message I'm really worried about.

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.

Has anybody heard any sort of rumors about this?  One individual went as far
as to say this "non-support" policy would begin with V5R2.

Anybody?

Joe