<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Good morning. Information Services and Technology is pleased to announce a timeline for retiring Mac OS X 10.2, including an upgrade path for Mac 10.2 and 10.3 users to Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and an alert regarding the transition to Intel-based Macs.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mac OS X 10.2 Retirement</DIV><DIV>------------------------</DIV><DIV>Information Services and Technology will discontinue support for Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" on February 3, 2006. New versions of applications, such as FileMaker Pro 8, and Dreamweaver 8, do not run on Mac OS X 10.2; we expect that other companies with follow suite and no longer support 10.2 as they revise their applications.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Users with supported hardware that will be used for the rest of fiscal year 2006 (see "Upgrade Path to Mac OS X 10.4" below) are encouraged to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", Apple's newest operating system. However, current users of SAPgui, Tivoli Storage Manager and Virex must wait until the Mac OS X 10.4-compatible versions of these applications are released by IS&T.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Upgrade Path to Mac OS X 10.4</DIV><DIV>-----------------------------</DIV><DIV>For users and support providers who wish to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4 (from either Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3), we are providing a list of administrative applications and their release timeframes:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* SAPgui 6.40 revision 4 is the only version of the SAPgui that works correctly on Mac OS X 10.4. IS&T expects to release SAPgui 6.40r4 in early December.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Tivoli Storage Manger (TSM) 5.3.2 is required to backup and restore files completely when using Mac OS X 10.4. IS&T expects to release TSM 5.3.2 in January 2006.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Virex 7.7 is required for Mac OS X 10.4 users; IS&T expects to release Virex by January 2006.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Some departments, labs and centers use OpenAFS to access the AFS networked file system, including athena.mit.edu. Currently, OpenAFS doesn't work with Mac OS X 10.4; a future version will.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The requirements for requesting Mac OS X 10.4 licenses from IS&T are as follows:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* an MIT-owned desktop or laptop Macintosh, with an 800 MHz or faster processor</DIV><DIV>* at least 512 MB of RAM</DIV><DIV>* 3 GB (4 GB if installing the developer tools) of available hard drive space</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>To provide the most value to MIT, only machines that are going to be in service until June 30, 2006 or later should be upgraded. Licenses obtained from IS&T on machines that are deactivated should be returned to the license pool.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" Users</DIV><DIV>-----------------------------</DIV><DIV>Users and their support providers may decide to continue running Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" until either compatible versions of their applications are available for Tiger or until they buy new equipment, which will come with Mac OS X 10.4 installed.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Users that continue to run Mac OS X 10.3 should install SAPgui 6.30 revision 10 when it is released in the next 2-4 weeks. SAPgui 6.30r10 is required for Mac OS X 10.3 users that have installed the Java Security Update from Apple [1]. This update changes the Java Runtime Environment, causing some transactions executed using SAPgui 6.20 to fail [2]. Once SAPgui 6.30r10 is available, users should install the Java Security Update.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>[1] <<A href="http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/javasecurityupdate.html">http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/javasecurityupdate.html</A>></DIV><DIV>[2] <<A href="http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/macpartners/2005-September/001084.html">http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/macpartners/2005-September/001084.html</A>></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Transition to Intel-based Macs</DIV><DIV>------------------------------</DIV><DIV>At its World Wide Developer Conference in June, Apple announced that it would transition from using PowerPC processors made by IBM and Freescale (formerly the semiconductor unit of Motorola) to processors made by Intel. At that time, Apple said that it would be shipping Intel-based Macs "by June 2006."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It is possible that Apple will ship Intel-based Macs sooner--possibly significantly sooner--than June 2006. These new Macs will ship with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" for Intel processors. Using Apple's Rosetta technology [3], most existing PowerPC programs will run unmodified on Intel-based Macs.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>[3] <<A href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/universal_binary_exec_a/chapter_7_section_1.html">http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/universal_binary_exec_a/chapter_7_section_1.html</A>></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>One important caveat: Classic, which allows applications created for Mac OS 9.x and earlier operating systems to run on Mac OS X, will not be available on Intel-based Macs. While most users have transitioned to Mac OS X-native applications, there are a small number of users using Mac OS 9.x-style applications under Classic. These users have two options: they can upgrade to the Mac OS X-native version of the Classic application that they're using (such as upgrading from Office 98 or 2001 to Office 2004) or transitioning to a Mac OS X-native application such as going from PageMaker, which only runs in Classic, to InDesign CS2.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In either case, IS&T recommends that users migrate from applications running under Classic; especially those users that expect to purchase new Macs in 2006.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Al Willis, for the Mac OS X Release Team <<A href="mailto:macosx-release@mit.edu">macosx-release@mit.edu</A>></DIV><DIV> Deb Bowser</DIV><DIV> Jonathan Reed</DIV><DIV> Lee Ridgway</DIV><DIV> Helen Rose</DIV><DIV> Matthias Thorn</DIV><DIV> Karl Witt</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">______________________________</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Albert Willis</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Information Services and Technology</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande"><A href="mailto:awillis@mit.edu">awillis@mit.edu</A></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>