Re: Upgrading IDS 9.21 - 9.40 or 10.0 ?

It's too late for the beta program, but with some interesting features in 10.5 you might like to wait until early 07 when it should be out if you value things like update stats etc.. Also it's holiday season soon, so remember this always stuffs up testing. Reading between the lines below, 9.4 will be dropped the second 11.1 comes out (2 new generations)... Assuming this is Q3-08 or sometime like that then expect 9.4. to be dropped then. At this point, we can enjoy the new IBM Primary / Primitive storage manager re-write. :) Remember, IBM give 1 yrs warning. So a good idea of when 11 is going to be released may be implied from the IBM life cycle page if you like playing the derived information game. Peter. Christine Normile wrote: > You'll want to go to IDS 10.xC4??4 (the version with the security > fixes) or IDS 10.xC5. Although no EOS date is set or published by > IBM, the policy is. IBM will support products for a minimum of 5 > years from announce and until at least two new generations of product > are available. IBM has pre-announced the next version of IDS and > projected an early 2007 release date. Because IDS 9.40 was released > in 2004, you might end up with only two years of runway before EOS. > IDS 10 will have a considerably longer shelf-life, but only go with > fixpack 4 or higher for the better stability and more complete > feature set. > > > > Christine Normile > christinenormile@mac.com > > >