OS/2 Withdrawal from Marketing and Change in Support
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:17 am
For several years IBM has published an OS/2 Strategy. It stated IBM's intention to reduce OS/2 support and made the recommendation that customers implement a phased transition from client-and-server environments to the WebSphere software platform. Consistent with that direction, OS/2 Warp V4 and OS/2 Warp Server for e-business have been withdrawn from marketing and the product CDs will not be available effective December 23, 2005. End of Standard Support for both products is December 31, 2006. This was announced on July 12, 2005.
Support beyond December 31, 2006, is available for a fee through Service Extensions or Total Content Ownership contracts.
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There are no plans for new versions/releases or new function for any of the OS/2 Warp V4 or Warp Server for e-business products or components (including Java and the IBM Web Browser).
There are no plans for any new fix packs or component refreshes. The currently available OS/2 fix packs will remain on the OS/2 support website through December 31, 2006.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/withdrawal.html
Support beyond December 31, 2006, is available for a fee through Service Extensions or Total Content Ownership contracts.
.
.
.
There are no plans for new versions/releases or new function for any of the OS/2 Warp V4 or Warp Server for e-business products or components (including Java and the IBM Web Browser).
There are no plans for any new fix packs or component refreshes. The currently available OS/2 fix packs will remain on the OS/2 support website through December 31, 2006.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/withdrawal.html