We still have a fairly busy 4.5 environment due to older OS versions so
I can't see us moving off our 5.1 environment for a while ... this for
us is the "show-stopper" for not upgrading.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: 15 May 2007 12:46
To: 'Scott Jacobson'; 'Simon (external) WEAVER'; 'Paul Keating';
VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support



I don't believe that customers are being placed between a rock and a
hard place - 6.0 MP4 is a stable release that works today.  I have not
heard of any show-stopper bugs in 6.0 that would prevent anybody from
upgrading.  You may need an engineering fix or two, and perhaps MP5 will
include those, but in general, the current release works for just about
everybody.

If you really feel that 5.1MP4 is rock solid, and there are no issues,
why are you concerned with Symantec continuing to support it?  You don't
*have* to upgrade - just don't log a call and expect it to get fixed.
If you have no issues, you'll have no calls to log and it won't matter
if it's supported or not.  I've got a non-Symantec product running that
we last logged a call on in 2000 (and our license agreement says that we
have to keep it under support as long as we're running it).

              .../Ed

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Scott
Jacobson
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:03 PM
To: Simon (external) WEAVER; 'Paul Keating';
VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support

 

I also believe 5.1 MP4+ is the most rock solid product I've run (less
DSSU issues) and would prefer to stay on that version and not be forced
between choosing either 6.0 MP4+ or 6.5 GA

I would suggest for those in the group who are also wanting to wait for
6.5 MP1+ to contact their Veritas/Symantec SE/Account Mgr's and let them
know as a customer you're being placed between a rock and a hard place
in terms of migration choices.

 

In talking with my former RTAM and current local Symantec SE, I'm
starting to hear they maybe considering the Oct 2007 date as a "soft"
and not a hard date.

 

Now maybe the time to put our voices behind this and tell them Oct 2007
end of support for 5.1 is unacceptable.

 

Scott




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