Re: Death of SNA?

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, Al,

does this imply that there may be a Euro and Rest_of_known_world solution?

In theory then, will the non-euro world be able to maintain status quo?

Somehow this sounds like the French are getting involved again....:)

Don in DC

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Al Barsa wrote:

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> Specifically, regarding the death of twin-ax, IBM is not planning to
> de-support this.  It turns out that new regulations in Europe make many IBM
> adapters out of compliance next year, including the current twin-ax
> adapter.  IBM understands that there are many proprietary twin-ax devices
> that customers have. (e.g.: point of sale)
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> Their plan is to let users go to twin-ax over Ethernet adapters.
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> In the event that a suitable adapter is not found, they may in fact come
> out with their own new twin-ax adapter which conforms with the ridiculous
> European regulations.  (This likely may not be cheap.)
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> Claims that the release after V5R3 will be the last to support SNA.
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> Confirmation from IBM:
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/futuresftwr.html
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> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/nav.html
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