Re: Upgrading IDS 9.21 - 9.40 or 10.0 ?

Hi all, Many thanks for all of your inputs. We will be going soon to for a test with IDS 10.0 FC5 and 4GL 7.32 suite of tools, on HP-UX 11.11. Thanks again, Prashant PeterP wrote: > 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 > > > > > >