From: Jason delaFuente (jason.delafuente@GBE.COM)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 10:46:34 EST
It is April 2006. That is according to an IBM PDF we have dated 2/16/04
Jason de la Fuente
>>> john.jolet@FXFN.COM 03/03/04 09:31AM >>>
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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