========= 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 ==============