Re: Which version of AIX.

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 11:00:14 EST


Well, good. they must have extended it.

Jason delaFuente wrote:

>It is April 2006. That is according to an IBM PDF we have dated 2/16/04
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>Jason de la Fuente
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>>>>john.jolet@FXFN.COM 03/03/04 09:31AM >>>
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>5.1 goes out of maintenance in april, unless they've extended it. Did
>you buy a refurbished machine?
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>Jay R. Wren wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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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