From: Bill Verzal (BVerzal@KOMATSUNA.COM)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 10:42:19 EST
Actually, according to
"http://www-1.ibm.com/services/sl/products/java2.html"
Support Group Product Name ID VRM End Date
AIX&SP AIX 5L Base Operating System 5765-E61 5.1.0
2006-04-01
AIX&SP AIX 5L for POWER 5765-E62 5.2.0
2007-09-01
BV
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John Jolet
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5.1 goes out of maintenance in april, unless they've extended it. Did
you buy a refurbished machine?
Jay R. Wren wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to both IBM and AIX. We recently purchased a p650 to replace
> some aging Digital Servers which run our enterprise application of SCT
> Banner 2000 on Oracle 9i.
>
> My question is regarding which version of AIX to run? For some reason
> the purchase of the server came with AIX 5.1, but 5.2 seems to be the
> latest. I would really like to reap the benefits of running the latest
> release of the OS as long as there are no drawbacks. Are there
> drawbacks? Are there any reasons to stick with 5.1? What was my vendor
> thinking? Perhaps they weren't thinking? Will I have to pay for an
> upgrade?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jay R. Wren
> Systems Programmer
> Oakland University
> Rochester, Michigan
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