Is SECURE BACKUP a good alternative to Veritas Netbackup ?

Folks,
With Oracle becoming more and more "one place - get all" company, i guess for support perspective, it will good to use or atleast start evaluating different Oracle products that are used with RDBMS
Got a question, Is Secure Backup product having all the capabilities and can it be a viable alternative to veritas netbackup ? I got the documentation and presentations. But it will be pleasing to know if somebody has already switched to secure backup from netbackup utility.
-Thanks
Srinivas
Message was edited by:
Srinivas.R

Hi,
Our application is entirely Oracle-based, so OSB was a good fit. The solution originally had NBU as the backup technology but was very expensive (I spent several days fighting off the Symantec account manager), even after generous discounts.
My experience of Oracle RMAN interfacing with NBU was patchy, but with OSB it "worked first time" - much more seamless. After some initial device configuration issues, we are now up and running in development, and I'm looking at rolling OSB out across 80 Solaris servers, including OAS and RAC servers.
Cheers.

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