Rich asked:
> Just curious if anyone has the status on whether
> 5.1 has been qualified and is shipping yet?
Yes, kits are starting to ship. I've received my shipment, and once
the internal distribution is complete, they start shipping customer
updates. Someone asked about fibre channel arbitrated loop for the
TruCluster product, and that's still in testing, so the statement of
support for that isn't ready, but otherwise, the TruCluster product
is also out and ready to go.
By the way, V5.1 is the last release that will support the older
"DEC" branded Alpha systems (the ones that do NOT have PCI buses
for I/O -- the DEC 2000, DEC 3000, DEC 4000, DEC 7000/10000). We
announced in the V5.0A release notes that support would be removed
in a future release, and in the V5.1 notes that V5.1 is the last
release to support those older systems. Bear in mind that all of
these systems ARE supported in the V4.0G release, and that V4.0G
is planned to have a long service life. If you are using one of
these older systems and have not yet decided to move to V5.x, you
might be better off moving to V4.0G than to V5.0 or V5.0A or V5.1.
I have also heard reports that Oracle Corporation may be retiring
their support for the older CPU models that did not support byte
and double-byte (8 bit and 16 bit) operations (LCA, EV4, EV45, EV5).
If you are using Oracle software on older systems using those old
CPU designs, you may wish to check with Oracle on their intentions
for future support.
Tom
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Received on Wed Sep 20 2000 - 19:25:32 NZST