From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 05:34:06 EDT
It's not just the hardware, but the effort of the software upgrade itself.
Managing an upgrade from 433 to 51 is bad enough. To go direct to 52, or to
have to do an upgrade from 51 to 52 after only a few months is a lot of
trouble and something which we would find very difficult to do in our
environment, simply due to the demands of system availability.
We can only guarantee getting one maintenance outage per month on some
systems so unless we do a lot of servers each time it just can't be fitted
in unless we ban all other maintenance, which I'm sure would go down well!
PSSP makes it tougher still, as if we need to manage an upgrade to PSSP 3.5
at the same time, (either from 3.2 or 3.4 in our case, depending on the
system).
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jolet [mailto:john.jolet@FXFN.COM]
> Sent: 24 June 2003 23:15
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: IBM extends support for AIX 5.1.
>
>
> i think it's a backlash from people like me who find it
> ludicrous that they are ending support for 5.1 4 months after
> ending support for 4.3.3. that move seems to me to be
> grasping and usurious...very microsoft or oracle-like.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Latimer [mailto:steve@MIDRANGE.CA]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:41 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: IBM extends support for AIX 5.1.
>
>
> Bill,
>
> That is probably correct. I see the extended support as a way
> of dealing
> with the backlash that they are getting due to 5.2 not being
> compatible
> with many older machines, where as 5.1 will run on all
> RS/6000 machines.
> 5.2 would force a lot of people to make new hardware decsions
> before they
> are ready to.
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