End of Service (EOS) of Lotus Notes and Domino 5.x
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End of Service (EOS) of Lotus Notes and Domino 5.x
* Customers can submit a request to purchase an IBM Service Extension to extend phone support beyond this date if desired. For more information, contact your sales representative or your Lotus Service Manager if applicable.
Just in case you're wondering when you should finish your conversion to 6.5... From the KnowledgeBase...
End of Service (EOS) of Lotus Notes and Domino 5.x
Document Number:
1117092
Problem
Summary of announcement:
In accordance with the standard IBM
Software Group release management process and our commitment to continuous
improvement of our product line, IBM Lotus software is announcing
that Notes and Domino version 5.x (R5) will be retired from service in
2005. With Notes and Domino 6 in market for over two and one half
years at that point, customers will have taken advantage of the easy upgrade
and many improvements of Release 6 and subsequent upgrades.
Key dates to be aware of:
- Q1 2004 -- 5.0.13
Ship
This is slated to be the last release of the R5 maintenance stream
- April 2004 -- End
of Life (EOL) for the R5 release
Withdraw of R5 from market, meaning that R5 will no longer be available for sale. Customers under existing maintenance contracts will continue to be entitled to maintenance releases and hot fixes using normal channels.
- April 2005 -- End
of Service (EOS) for the R5 release
End of phone Technical Support * and Maintenance Engineering (code fixes) for Domino and Notes 5.x.
* Customers can submit a request to purchase an IBM Service Extension to extend phone support beyond this date if desired. For more information, contact your sales representative or your Lotus Service Manager if applicable.
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