Jay, Please contact your local Sales Rep for any questions on future products. Thanks
On a general note, we will test and qualify new software releases running on discontinued hardware for a period of 2 years after hardware End of Availability date.
We have recently decided on the following clarification for software support if the hardware has met the 2 year period:
Software support for hardware surpassing the 2 year period will not be phased out in Data ONTAP Maintenance releases. (i.e. x.x.x). We will phase out support in Major Data ONTAP releases (x.x).
Thus, the F220, F330, and F540 products (which have a 4/30/00 End of Software Support) will be supported in the Data ONTAP 5.3.x Maintenance Releases. This effectively extends software support until we stop creating maintenance releases for 5.3.x.
Ed Reidenbach Mgr, Data ONTAP and High Availability
-----Original Message----- From: Jay Orr [mailto:orrjl@stl.nexen.com] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 1:42 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Ontap 5.4
Any word if ontap 5.4 will be out this month?
The reason I ask is Netapp told us they are discontinuing software support at the end of this month because the F330's were declared EOL a year ago. However, last I had talked to anyone about this it was believed that 5.4 would be out before they discontinued software support.
What is the plans for ontap versions and F330 and support? Anyone know?
----------- Jay Orr Systems Administrator Fujitsu Nexion Inc. St. Louis, MO