From: Peter McKay (Peter.McKay@INFINITY.CO.NZ)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 16:16:11 EST
Gent's,
The end of marketing for AIX 5.1 is mid 1st quarter 2004, while program
services are available until mid 1st quarter 2005.
Kind Regards,
Peter McKay
Technical Consultant
Infinity Solutions
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-----Original Message-----
From: Raj Atwal [mailto:atwalrs@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2003 04:12
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: End of support for AIX 5.1 in April 2004
I feel your pain Simon. I am currently working on upgrading 50+
servers from aix433 to 5.1 including some SP nodes. We thought about
going to 5.2 directly because of the April 2003 EOS date for 5.1L, but
found that it was too much of a jump for our applications. It is a task
and a half to get some of our applications up to 5.1, never mind 5.2
The only consolation in this regard is that the jump from 5.1L
to 5.2 is smaller and should be less painfully than going from 4.3.3 to
5.1. So we envisage that although quite soon after we upgrade our last
server from 4.3.3 to 5.1 we will start planning the 5.2 upgrades, the
process should be less painful.
I am quite suprised that 5.1 EOS date is so close to 4.3.3 EOS,
a bad judgement on behalf of IBM imho. Perhaps if enough customers
complain to IBM they may extend the 5.1 EOS date, we can at least hope
right!
"Green, Simon" <Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM> wrote:
End of support for 5.1 in April next year is rather
worrying.
We've got a project underway to upgrade from 433 to 5L,
but I was expecting
that most of the servers would initially go to 5.1. It's
going to be hard
enough to do that; going straight to 5.2 would be a
serious problem.
Not the upgrade itself, but compatibility of
applications, (and getting
vendors to give a straight answer!).
Does anybody else have a view on this? Where can I
direct my complaint?
How many people are still on 4.3.3? Do you intend to
jump straight to 5.2
this year?
What about people who have recently upgraded to 5.1. Do
you plan to go to
5.2 in the next year?
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
AIX-L Archive at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2
AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/
N.B. Unsolicited emai! l from vendors will seldom be
appreciated.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Verzal [mailto:Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM]
> Sent: 02 April 2003 15:22
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: AIX v5 on 7013
>
>
> http://www-1.ibm.com/services/sl/products/
>
>
> "Green, Simon"
> Sent by: "IBM AIX Discussion List"
> 04/02/2003 03:36 AM
> Please respond to "IBM AIX Discussion List"
>
>
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> cc:
> Subject: Re: AIX v5 on 7013
>
>
> Bill: where did you get that date for end of support
on AIX 5.1? I'd
> heard
> that it was likely to happen next year, but I haven't
seen a
> specific date
> for it.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Verzal [mailto:Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM]
> > Sent: 01 April 2003 22:31
>! > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > Subject: Re: AIX v5 on 7013
> >
> >
> > IBM is dropping support as of 12/31/03.
> > AIX 5.1 will be unsupported as of 4/30/2004
> > AIX 5.2 will not run on MVA machines.
> >
______________________________
Raj Atwal
Senior Systems Consultant
Braegen Group
Toronto, ON, Canada
(416) 366 6363
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