Re: The OV/400 end

Robin,

Uh, I'ld expect 5.1 to be out and "talkable about" BEFORE Common...which
means the FIRST part of MAY...my money would be on first week of May...

And, It's gonna be a not-to-small release...purported to be one of the
biggies ever for the 400...but time will tell...

Don in DC

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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Robin Sapiro wrote:

> It has not been "officially" announced, but expect V5R1 to GA on May 31, 2001.
> 
> Following is an extract from an IBM site (forget where I clipped it from) on 
>OS/400 release dates.
> 
> IBM U.S. Product Life Cycle Dates
>  
> Program                                  Marketing   Service      Replaced
> Number   VRM     Announced   Available   Withdrawn   Discontinued    By
>  
> 5769-SS1 4.05.0  2000/06/12  2000/07/28      -       2002/07/31       -
> 5769-SS1 4.04.0  1999/02/09  1999/05/21      -       2001/05/31       -
> 5769-SS1 4.03.0  1998/09/01  1998/09/11  2000/12/31  2001/01/31       -
> 5769-SS1 4.02.0  1998/02/10  1998/02/27  2000/10/25  2000/05/31       -
> 5769-SS1 4.01.0  1997/08/19  1997/08/29  2000/10/25  2000/05/31       -
> 
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> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 1:55 PM
> Subject: Re: The OV/400 end
> 
> 
> > 
> > Al, you're confusing me.  You say that IBM extended the life of OV to one
> > release after V4R5.  Then in your last sentence you say that support for
> > the product goes away 5/31/01.  That's the date I've heard but that would
> > mean that V5R1 or whatever they are calling it this week will be GA on
> > 5/31/01.  Am I just being stupid?  That's happened before.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net>@midrange.com on 01/05/2001 12:14:35 PM
> > 
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> > To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > cc:
> > 
> > Subject:  Re: The OV/400 end
> > 
> > 
> > At 11:05 AM 1/5/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > 
> > IBM initially announced that OV support would end with V4R5, and the
> > customers went into an uproar, so IBM extended the life of OV to the
> > release after (generally accepted by the industry to be V5R1, but if I had
> > any specific knowledge of this I would not be able to say).  The actual
> > support for the product goes away 5/31/01.
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> > 
> > >Pat Barber wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would like to hear exactly happens with OV/400. I understand
> > > > that support ends, but does this also mean that it WILL NOT
> > > > run on V4R5 or is it like many other older products that are
> > > > no longer sold but still run just fine. I have seen and heard
> > > > many comments on OV/400 but just because support ends, it
> > > > hardly means it will not work.
> > >
> > >I just got a 270 at V4R5 and was able to order Officevision for it.
> > >
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