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The usability extends, therefore, well beyond the End of Service announcement.Įnd of Life (EOL) means that the particular system model will no longer be licensed or sold. After that point, the systems may still meet your needs for many years, but you will be at a greater risk for failure if you don't maintain adequate spares.
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The useful product life for Sun systems includes the time period in which it can be purchased plus the time in which it will be serviced. For most Sun systems, a few years will go by in which the product is generally available. Once products are announced, they can be sold and shipped.
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In some of my previous professional incarnations, non-disclosures were fairly routine. These allow these customers to hold off on a purchase when newer systems are just around the corner. Some organizations, especially those that purchase a lot of Sun equipment, may be privvy to one additional product life cycle event - non-disclosure (i.e., you can't tell anyone) announcements that occur sometime before products are introduced to the public. We also saw Sun's announcement of the End of Life of the Sun Fire V125, V215, V245 and V445 servers with a Last Ship Date of July 11th. Last month's announcement of the Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers wasn't the only "life event" announcement. Other life events for Sun systems include the End of Life (EOL), the Last Order Date (LOD), the Last Ship Date (LSD) and the End of Service Life (EOSL). As with the Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers announced just last month, each product that is introduced is accompanied by a flurry of press releases, touting the features and speed improvements of the various systems. This is something like a birth announcement. The first event that most of us see when it comes to Sun systems is the product announcement or "introduction". You might not be aware that several other life cycle "events" add to the overall life cycle of Sun systems and help to determine when they can be ordered and shipped as well as when they eventually become ineligible for Sun support. The cost of doing otherwise would be prohibitive and the impact on the production of newer systems would hardly be justified.

Every manufacturer eventually declares an end of support for its older products. Of course, it isn't just Sun systems that follow a process that starts with a product's announcement and moves through to its end of life announcement. While the systems may still be performing extremely well, Sun maintenance will have been assigned a predictable end date. This is the equivalent of a retirement age for computers, the date at which Sun informs customers that support for those systems is coming to an end. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.Ĭreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.If you have ever tried to contract for hardware support for an older Sun system, you are undoubtedly aware of the fact that Sun systems eventually reach an "end of life" stage. CC-BY-SA-3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 true true This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.
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