Who can say what IBM's unannounced plans are? However, I think if you go back
and look at the status of the prior machines you'll find that withdrawing MES
upgrades happens around 5 years after introduction. It appears that I updated
the following table earlier this year, but I can't take responsibility for the
absolute accuracy or completeness of this data. Interesting that it appears
that during the 9672 days service was discontinued around 10 years after
introduction, but that hasn't carried forward to the 64-bit machines. But
again, who can know (or understand) IBM's marketing plans?
Machine Announced Available
Marketing MES upgrades Service
Withdrawn Withdrawn Discontinued
9672-xx4 (G3) 9/10/1996 9/30/1996 7/20/1999 7/20/1999?
12/31/2006
9672-xx5 (G4) 6/9/1997 6/30/1997 4/30/2002
6/30/2002 12/31/2007
9672-xx6 (G5) 6/23/1998 9/30/1998 12/31/2003 12/31/2003
12/31/2010
9672-xx7 (G6) 5/3/1999 5/28/1999 12/31/2004
12/31/2004 12/31/2010
2064 (z900) 10/3/2000 12/18/2000 6/30/2006 10/2/2006
2064 (z900-2xx) 4/30/2002 5/15/2002 6/30/2006 10/2/2006
2084 (z990) 5/13/2003 6/16/2003 6/30/2008 12/31/2008
2094 (z9) 7/26/2005 9/16/2005 6/30/2010
6/30/2010
2097 (z10) 2/26/2008 2/26/2008 6/30/2012 6/30/2013
2817 (z196) 7/22/2010 9/10/2010 - -
2827 (zEC12) 8/28/2012 9/19/2012 - -
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:25:11 +0000, Ward, Mike S <mw...@ssfcu.org> wrote:
>Hello all, I was wondering if any of you fine gentlemen or ladies would know
>what the expected life cycle of the zBC12 would be? In other words when will
>IBM stop providing anymore MES's for that box?
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