========= EOL NOTICE ============== Product: rPath Linux Distribution with Asterisk Business Edition Date: 4/12/2009 Announcement: This notice is to announce the termination of the software appliance distribution of Asterisk Business Edition™ Release C based on rPath® Linux. This does NOT affect the availability of Asterisk Business Edition Release C for RedHat®Enterprise Linux (4 and 5), CentOS Linux (4 and 5) and Fedora™ Linux (6 and 7). May 12, 2009 – Public notification period, End of Sale, End of Software Digium® will add to the ABE web page the notification for the EOL Schedule for the rPath appliance and recommending against the use of rPath-based ABE installations for new systems. The rPath appliance versions will be moved from the “Current” section of the ABE portal to the “Supported” section of the ABE portal. Digium will make announcement via e-mail, to all current ABE users. Digium will send announcements to the various Asterisk-related mailing lists (asterisk-announce, asterisk-dev, asterisk-biz, and asterisk-users). December 31, 2009 — End Of Engineering Support, End Of Availability. From this date, Digium will no longer provide engineering support for ABE B.x and C.x systems built on the rPath Linux appliance framework. rBuilder updates will no longer be available after this date. Customers under support subscriptions will receive basic product support as outlined below. The rPath appliance .iso files will be removed from the “Supported” folder on the Business Edition portal on December 31, 2009, concurrent with the end of support. Support Policy ABE end user and reseller customers and licensees are recommended to migrate any existing ABE systems based on rPath to a supported distribution prior to the end of support date defined above. Prior to the end of support date, customers will receive full technical and engineering support for their systems. Following the end of support date only basic technical support will be provided (i.e. software exception cases – bugs – will not be opened with the engineering department for issues with the ABE + rPath appliance). ========= END OF NOTICE ==============