Exchange 5.5 end of support is this month!!!
December 11 2003
I've been duped! Back
in August, Microsoft announced that
they were extending mainstream support for Exchange 5.5 for another year.
At least that's how the press and others conveyed the MS announcement.
Turns out that mainstream
Exchange 5.5 support ends on 31 December 2003, as scheduled.
All that changed in August was that MS decided that the first
year of extended hotfix support would be available at no additional charge.
What's the difference? Well, that means that the only Exchange
5.5 support available in three weeks will be pay-per-incident and security
hotfixes. I hope that all you Exchange 5.5 sites know what you are
doing, 'cause it seems like your vendor is saying "bye bye" to
you very soon -- and has led you to believe that they aren't. And
I know you are still out there -- in the last month of customer meetings,
the vast majority of the MS customers I've met are still on 5.5. Yowsa.
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Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com | 12/11/2003 9:35:32 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if they make some more end-of-life announcements in the near future, after their latest settlement with Sun:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031210/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_products_dc_1
I could see that being a great excuse for phasing out older (and not so older) products and forcing an even more aggressive upgrade schedule on their loyal corporate customers.
- Julian
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Justin Knol http://justinknol.net | 12/11/2003 10:01:09 PM
Ed,
If only there was something you could do for all those poor exchange 5.5 sites.
:)
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Alan Lepofsky | 12/12/2003 1:28:17 PM
Time to send all those customers the redbook again!
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65f/6469b7ea6758984a85256d2d0066dc0c?OpenDocument
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Bruce Elgort http://www.BruceElgort.com | 12/12/2003 3:24:54 PM
Just kidding :o)
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