The Manage 2000 8.1 sp5 cutoff went off on scheduler last Friday. Now Lane has doffed his Release Control hat, and I am setting up work space for Manage 2000 8.1 service pack 6 development.
In other news... "Support for HPE's Itanium-powered Integrity servers, and HP-UX 11i v3, will come to an end on December 31, 2025". So what does that mean for the 20 or so Manage 2000 sites running on HP?
Well, we on the Manage 2000 development team have taken notice. Lane has Manage 2000 8.1 sp4 running on a LINUX RHE machine and the rest of us are banging away on it. VSI-Fax is one of our last major hurdles to supporting Manage 2000 on LINUX. Esker will not support the traditional local Vsi-Fax install on RHE 8. That pretty much strands Manage 2000 FXJ capabilities. I will be trying to build a bridge to the Esker 'On-Demand' web service API. And Bud is looking into another option hosting Vsi-Fax on Windows and accessing the database from a LINUX machine. One way or another we'll get there.
RHE is the Red Hat Enterprise flavor of LINUX. It has the chops to become the foundation for larger Manage 2000 sites going forward. I am expecting this to be mostly Itanium sites needing to move to a supported platform by the end of 2025. But, I will not be surprised if some larger Windows Server sites eye the LINUX option favorably, if for no other reason than 85% of ransomware attacks still target Windows systems.
Yep, just gets interesting-er and interesting-er.
