Join the club, we are in the same boat.  While the cost of replacement is
only $12,000 Australian, nobody wants to part with the money.  It could be
a bit dangerous as our system disk will be out of support.
regards  ...  Terry

At 02:35  28/01/99 -0800, Rankin, Rich wrote:
>This is something I am working with also.  We just received a copy of our
>support contract only to learn in 8 months, most of the hardware will be out
>of support.  Now I have to approach the powers to be that we need to adjust
>the 2 year budget that was signed 1 month prior.
>
>Anyone want to volunteer?
>
>Rich
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick Santucci [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:47 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: End of Support Life
>
>
>Jeff Vance wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 25,  1:27pm, Lane Rollins wrote:
>> > Okay I give up... If I remember correctly there is a web page at HP that
>has
>> > the End of Support date for products. Does anybody have the URL?
>>
>> This may help:
>>
>>    http://www.hp.com/ssg/vin/index.html
>
>Or it may not. This page only discusses software. I'm interested in
>knowing where/how I can look up end of support dates, past and future,
>for hardware. I've found some on the Y2K pages but nowhere does there
>seem to be a comprehensive "Vintage Hardware" list.
>
>This would be useful when considering the purchase of used equipment
>from TPV's, as well as planning for equipment upgrades (read: budgeting
>for next year). It could be a really big problem to suddenly get a
>support renewal contract and find out that a bunch of hard drives won't
>be supported in 9 months, but our annual budget didn't take that into
>account becasue we didn't know about it.
>
>Patrick
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