Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.0 (C.70.00) (30216-90312)

Chapter 2 17

Announcements

MPE/iX Release 6.0 End Of Support Extended

MPE/iX Release 6.0's End Of Support date has been extended to April 30, 2002. After that

date, HP will no longer generate new Release 6.0 patches and will not accept support calls

on Release 6.0 based problems. Customers should plan on updating all their HP e3000

systems to a later release before April 30, 2002. Release 6.0 ﬁrst shipped in October, 1998.

This Release 6.0 End Of Support date coincides with the End Of Support date for the 9x7

series systems. See the article, "HP Will Retire Support of HP 3000 9x7 Servers," in this

Communicator document for more information.

6250 bpi Tapes As A Software Distribution Media

HP is stopping the usage of 6250 bpi tapes for the distribution of HP software with the

shipment of Release 7.0. Customers can no longer sign up for 6250 bpi software

distribution media. Customers with existing contracts that call for 6250 bpi tapes will still

receive these tapes for releases prior to 7.0, but all customers are encouraged to update

their contracts to use either DDS or CDs as their software distribution media.

6250 bpi tape drives will still be supported for customer usage. HP simply has stopped

distributing software using this media.