Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.5 (Software Release C.75.00) (30216-90336)

Chapter 2

Announcements

HP Announces Transition Plan for HP e3000 Server Series

In November 2001, Hewlett-Packard began advising customers to transition from HP e3000 servers to other

HP server platforms over the next five years. The rapid evolution of technology away from proprietary

platforms and customer and partner decisions to move to other platforms led to the transition plan.

HP is offering customers assistance for their transition, including migration services, financing options,

consulting, outsourcing and education. Customers with newer HP e3000 servers will be able to convert them

to HP-UX servers at no cost. Trade-in credits and discounts toward the purchase of the latest HP servers

running HP-UX, Microsoft Windows or Linux also will be available. In addition, HP is working with e3000

application providers to transition their applications and then their customer bases to other HP platforms.

To ensure customers have time to plan any final server purchases, HP will continue to sell HP e3000 servers

until November 1, 2003. During that time, HP plans to provide enhancements, including new processors and

storage solutions.

HP also will provide a broad portfolio of support services for the e3000 servers until January 1, 2007. This

support is designed to ensure that customers have time to plan and execute a transition to an alternative HP

server platform.

HP is working with a number of tools, middleware and sustem integration partners to offer additional

migration tools and services. A comprehensive program is being designed to track the tools and services

available and to create linkages between partners to offer customer complete migration solutions. Partners

cam find more information on HP’s partner Web site at http://www.hp.com/dspp/ or they may sign up for

the partner-transition program at http://www.hp.com/go/developers.

For more details on the HP announcement, please visit http://www.hp.com/go/e3000.

End of Support Dates for MPE/iX Releases

Support for the MPE/iX Release 6.0 release has been extended to December 31, 2002. Support for MPE/iX

Release 6.5 has been extended to December 31, 2004. MPE/iX release 7.0 and 7.5 will be supported until

December 31, 2006.

Customers on releases 6.0 or 6.5 should plan to update to either MPE/iX 7.0 or MPE/iX 7.5 prior to these

dates. We would encourage most customers to update to the 7.5 or 7.0 Express 1 release since these releases

contain many performance and capacity enhancements for high-end systems, and bundled tools for using the

HPe3000 with the Internet. Additionally, 7.0 and 7.5 releases will be supported longer than the 6.5 release.

As we have done for previous MPE/iX releases, Hewlett-Packard will continue to provide 18 months notice

before terminating support of a given release.