Title: Decommission Dates
Description: Lawson Env, App and BSDecommission Dates
Keith_G_Thompson - April 6, 2007 03:42 PM (GMT)
I spoke with Michael Doeden @ Lawson (Professional Services) about our project planning for LSF 9.0 and he communicated the following decommission dates. He said these were communicated last year as early as October, but we did not receive them here at Mercury. They are:
8.0.3 Env - July 2008
8.0.3 Apps - May 2009
8.1 Apps - May 2010
Lawson Enterprise Reporting 10.0 (LRS) - March 1, 2008
Lawson e-Broadcasting 9.0.3 - March 1, 2008
BSI Tax Factory 7 drop dead 9/30/2007!!! Since TF8 hasn't been certified yet, we're going to have a tight squeeze to get this in.
Some other notes about issues that are effecting us here:
LSF9 will require Windows 2003. We are on Windows 2000, so that is an extra step for us to upgrade.
They are offering a "trade-in" on the licensing of LBI9 for anything you might have licensed under LRS, but only if you do so by the decommision dates.
If you license LSF9 by May 21, 2007 you have the option to get the 8.0.3 to 9.0 Skip-Upgrade software for free. I do not know how much this is after May 21.
Hope that helps!
Cindy - August 16, 2007 05:01 PM (GMT)
So you are running production 8.03 on a Windows 200 server with no problems? What ESP level are you at?
area51 - August 16, 2007 08:24 PM (GMT)
Why does LSF9 require windows 2003? They do a majority of their development on AIX these days.
Keith_G_Thompson - October 15, 2007 04:06 PM (GMT)
Sorry, that is if you're on a Windows platform. Win2000 is no longer required. Unix still seems to be the preferred platform, with AIX and HPUX being the most common. I believe Sun is supported too, but I have seen very few of those implementations.
Keith_G_Thompson - October 15, 2007 04:14 PM (GMT)
Sorry, that is if you're on a Windows platform. Win2000 is no longer required. Unix still seems to be the preferred platform, with AIX and HPUX being the most common. I believe Sun is supported too, but I have seen very few of those implementations.
And, to Cindy's question, yes, we were running Win2000 w/ env 8.0.3.5 and apps 8.0.3.6 + misc patches. We had very very few issues. We ran into a funny thing with a java date conversion and on our TEST box a problem with a Lawson user name translation routine (one of those 900-GET-USER-NAME things). Other than that we've been pretty stable.
We did complete cyclicals to env 8.0.3.7 and apps 8.0.3.11 before converting to LSF9. The apps cyclical was easy. The env cyclical was challenging, mostly because our prod environment was clustered and none of our test environments were clustered! Hard to test things when you have no parallel environment.....