8.4.1 - Sunset date = Sept. 2013

[Grim]

See my post in the IBM links section.

Wanted to get a discussion going as to who else is surprised by this?
Is it just me or did this one kinda fly under the radar?

Also to get a more visibility on this for those folks that just moved to 8.4.1 and/or are still in the process of migrating to 8.4.1.

[SomeClown]

It's been policy for a while - support for two back and would guess that 10.x/11/?? would be out by then (3rd qtr 2013).  10.1 and 10.2 count as a version in the n-2 calcs

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/faq.html

[bdbits]

I am always surprised by how many people are apparently still on v7.x versions of Cognos. By the time that date rolls around, I believe 8.4.1 will be nearly four years old, which is actually quite a long time in technology. So I am not that surprised, actually.

I also thought the current-minus-two support policy had been in place for quite a while, but I've only been doing Cognos for about 3.5 years, started on 8.2.

[MFGF]

Cognos 7 (and Cognos PowerHouse) are rather different situations - they are entirely separate architectures rather than being evolutions of the same architecture, so IBM continues to support these platforms and to develop them in terms of conformance with new OSs, browser releases etc. I don't imagine this will change - there are still many licenses of these being used. Cognos 10 is an evolution of Cognos 8, which in turn is an evolution of ReportNet, and as SomeClown indicated, IBM have a 3-version rolling support window for this architecture. Everything you can do in Cognos 8.4.1 you can also do in 10, so I don't see why users wouldn't move up to 10 anyway.

Cheers!

MF.

[Grim]

By that time rolls around 8.4.1 will be 2 months short of being 4 years old. Industry defacto standard for Software is 5 years. So to me this is too soon. But that's just IMHO

[MFGF]

From past observation, IBM seem to issue a new version approximately once a year. Consider (very rough estimates):

8.1 - 2005
8.2 - 2006
8.3 - 2007
8.4 - 2008
8.4.1 - 2009
10.1 - 2010
10.1.1 - 2011
10.2 - 2012

Considering IBM's 3-version support window, this makes it roughly three years.

Cheers!

MF.