[Macpartners] Reminder: Mac OS X 10.2 retirement today

[Albert Willis]

Date: Friday, February 3, 2006
To:  Members of the MIT Community: macpartners at mit.edu, 
itpartners at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu, sw-release-announce at mit.edu
From: Software Release Team <swrt at mit.edu>
Subj: Reminder: Mac OS X 10.2 retirement today
Cc:  is&t at mit.edu, itag at mit.edu, it-lead at mit.edu

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.

Users with supported hardware that will be used for at least the rest 
of fiscal year 2006 are encouraged to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4 
"Tiger," Apple's newest operating system.

Last month, IS&T announced the release of Tivoli Storage Manager 
5.3.2 and SAPgui 6.40, both adding support for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" 
and enabling users that rely on these applications to upgrade to 
Tiger. For departments, labs and centers that use AFS, a final 
version that supports Tiger should be available from its developers 
soon.

Mac OS X 10.4 System Requirements
---------------------------------
The requirements for requesting Mac OS X 10.4 licenses from IS&T are 
as follows:

* an MIT-owned desktop or laptop Macintosh, with an 800 MHz or faster processor
* at least 512 MB of RAM
* 3 GB (4 GB if installing the developer tools) of available hard drive space

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.

Licenses for Mac OS X 10.4 can be obtained from 
http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/mitmacos/.

   -- Al

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Albert Willis
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Client Support Services
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
awillis at mit.edu