I can't speak for the products Marcy has listed, but there are factors that often prevent support from day 1:
1) The schedule is Novell's and not IBM's 2) The Schedule can slip even for beta releases causing testing delays. 3) IBM Testing is not complete until you have tested on a Novell GA release. 4) There have been last minute changes from Novell that caused confusion about what is GA (SLES9 SP4 found a major bug which caused a delay.) While all major vendors will of course be involved in the Beta testing of any new Novell release, I would think it reasonable to assume that any vendor may not fully certify/support a new Novell GA release for at least a few weeks following the GA release date, 2-6 depending on problems found. mark Stephen Frazier wrote: > Normally, for most products, IBM tests them on the new release before > the availability date. If it > runs with no problems then it is supported from day 1. If they have to > change something then support > may be later. If it is easy to fix they may support it (with the fix) > from day 1. > > Marcy Cortes wrote: >> Have to do some 2009 planning... >> >> How long is it typically between the availability of the next release of >> SLES (or RHEL for that matter) before IBM will support WAS, DB2, MQ >> Series on it? >> >> >> Marcy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
