Honestly, I don't want to upgrade! BUT........According to the 6.5 Communicator on
page 12, "MPE/iX Release 5.5 (which has a projected end-of-support date of
November 1, 2000) and Release 6.0 (which has a projected end-of-support date of
November 1, 2001)....." Or am I misreading that whole page. Hardware is not the
problem. We run on a 979/400. It is the OS version about which I am concerned.
Our busy season begins about November 1 each year. If our operating system is no
longer supported after November 1 THIS year, I want to make sure we are upgraded
at least to 6.0 and get the kinks worked out BEFORE we hit our busy season. I can
ill-afford system problems at that time of the year.
I also do NOT relish the thought of having to upgrade twice within an 18 month
period of time, which is why I'm not too crazy about going to 6.0 only to have to do
another upgrade next year. Also, my HP ASE recommended the jump from 5.5 to
6.5 and, I believe, did not recommend 6.0....FOR US. Big :-( ......no he,he,he's
about this!
Cynthia Bridges-Fowler
MIS Operations Analyst
IMC Salt, Inc., a division of IMC Global
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>>> "Mike Hornsby" <[log in to unmask]> 05/25/00 01:18PM >>>
DON'T DO IT! What is it about 5.5pp7 that is a problem? The vast majority
of HP3000s are on 5.5 pp4-7 and don't have any plans to change until after
12/31/2000.
Mike
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From: "Cynthia Fowler" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 2:08 PM
Subject: OS compatibility
We have been planning for an OS upgrade from 5.5pp7 to 6.5 this fall along
with it's
latest pp, but I learned this morning that one of our primary applications
is not
guaranteed to run on 6.5 so we will probably have to upgrade to 6.0 (latest
pp
available at that time). This makes me wonder if there is other 3rd party
software
which will not run on 6.5, so for those of you 3rd party folks, would you
please
address this? Of course, I plan to call each of my vendors, but I'm curious
as I'm sure
others user may be.....
Thanks in advance!
Cynthia Bridges-Fowler
MIS Operations Analyst
IMC Salt, Inc., a division of IMC Global
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