Two years sounds good. What about the future?
What about incremental costs for procuring iPlanet
server? First of all is it a incremental procurement
cost or do I have to buy it new?
Does sun has a roadmap for ND folks and KIVA folks to
embrace iPlanet?
I don't know how many CIOs lost their jobs because of
going the ND way.
Regards
Madhu
--- Joel Parker Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > >I'm a NetDynamics Developer, a few days ago I
> knew that NetDynamics is
> > > >going to be discontinued, what do you know
> about that?
>
> Hi all,
>
> NetDynamics 5 is slated for upgrade to the iPlanet
> Application Server
> next year. All this means is that new customers will
> buy iPlanet.
>
> All existing customers have full support for ND5
> until 2002.
> This includes technical support by phone, email, and
> website;
> it includes professional services, consulting, and
> training;
> it includes all our partner services like migration
> help from
> www.intrasolvconsulting.com and hosting from
> www.breakaway.com.
> In fact, it includes absolutely everything that you
> have now.
>
> You will have two full years to gradually move your
> projects from ND5 to
> the iPlanet Appserver. I want to emphasize: you have
> two full years.
>
> Some developers will want to look at the iPlanet App
> Server sooner, for
> things like the Enterprise Java Bean (EJB)
> capabilities. This is great,
> and you can get started right now by learning about
> EJB and using the
> EJB features in ND5. Improved EJB support in
> NetDynamics is coming
> asap when we release the next rev of ND5, which will
> be ND 5.02.
> Everyone here should definitely download ND 5.02
> when it's ready;
> we will be posting release announcements and notes
> on this list.
>
> To help developers, we are creating new EJB
> migration guides
> and new tools to help with the conversion to the EJB
> frameworks.
> This will include more information about how to
> upgrade from
> ND3 to ND4, from ND4 to ND5, from the CSp framework
> to EJB,
> and eventually from ND5 to iPlanet when it is ready
> to use.
>
> We are also training our partners in migration from
> ND5 to iPlanet,
> and in the new Java technolgies like EJB, JSP, and
> the rest of J2EE.
> Our partners are joining us in our worldwide
> consulting engagements,
> and work directly with our customers to create the
> migration guides.
>
> In my opinion, we have four of the best NetDynamics
> developers
> in the world working on these migration guides. Sun
> is making
> a very strong investment in learning how to do
> things smoothly
> and gradually, because we know our customers will
> need this.
> You will be able to see our results within a month
> or two,
> and all of the information will be available on our
> web.
>
> ----
>
> In summary, NetDynamics 5 will be around for a long,
> long time.
> It is a proven technology, with good
> rapid-development tools,
> lots of developers, lots of consultants, and lots of
> partners.
>
> You are perfectly safe developing and deploying in
> ND5,
> and will have two full years before you need to
> upgrade.
> When you do choose to upgrade, there will plenty of
> help
> from Sun and also from all of our NetDynamics
> partners.
>
> If you (or your manager) need an official person
> from Sun
> to provide details about the support policies and
> maintenance,
> send email to Bill Lazar, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Bill was
> in ND support for years, and is now our ND product
> manager.
>
> I hope this helps to hear. As always, send your
> feedback!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel
>
> home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
>
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