Linda Proulx wrote to Will Honea on 10-21-1999

LP>  WH> Anyone can download it - it's your nickle - but the installer checks
LP>  WH> for products to service and FP 41+ will not recognize Warp 3 or Warp
LP>  WH> Connect and eligible.  There is a hack floating about that will
gimmick
LP> 
LP> Why won't it recognise W 3/4 (assume W Connect is 4 connect). 
LP> What is eligible? 

First, Warp 4 is a different product entirely and the fixpak quite
properly refuses to install for that reason.  As for Warp 3 and Warp
Connect, IBM announced the end-of-service for that product some months
back.  FP41 and 42 are specified as being for Warp Server - not Warp 3
- so the installer checks for and only services the products it finds
in the fixpak's list of elible products.  To get fixpaks which
recognize out-of-service products you have to be a paying customer for
support for that specific product.  A company I work for has such a
contract and the FP 42 content is indeed a little different than the
Warp Server fixpak.  Makes perfectly good sense to me (not that I like
it) since it costs IBM money to test and certify those fixpaks for the
configurations they support so I would not expect them to expend the
resources necessary to support out-of-service products.  The end of
service should not be a surprise, BTW.  It has been published for at
least 3 years with a couple of extensions announced.

LP> FP 41+ for Warp 4  or Warp 4 Server only?  What diff between
LP> Connect & Server? 

Arrgh! In my usual sloppy way I have confused you.  Warp 3 was
released in, IIRC, late 1994 in 2 versions: Red, which contained no
Windows 3 code but used your existing version, and Blue, which
contained it's own  version of Windows 3.1 know as WinOS2.  Warp
Connect was derived from Warp 3 at about fp17 level and released in mid
1995 with the same Red/Blue versioning.  What set it apart was the
inclusion of Peer-to-Peer networking with  complete LAN requester
functionality and a Peer server.  Warp 4 was derived from Warp 3 at
about the fp 22 level but it contained a completely different workplace
shell and major internal differences.  It came standard with full
network client and peer support using a much newer TCP/IP stack and LAN
support code.  Release in mid-1996, it was a totally different product
than Warp 3.

Now the confusion.  Dates are a bit fuzzy, but circa 1996 IBM released
Warp Server 4.  This product used the Warp 3 kernel and accessories but
was integrated with LAN Server 4.0 (hence the Warp Server 4).  This was
a full blown server version which incidentally used Warp 3 as the
underlying OS.  Until then, LAN Server was a standalone product
targeted at OS/2 2.1x as it's OS.  Service for the Server and the OS
has always been separate steps - still is.  For Warp Server, IBM even
released a very good SMP (multi-processor) version of the OS which was
unavailable as a standalone product.  It was only with last summer's
release of Warp Server for eBusiness (variously refered to as Aurora,
Warp 5, OS/2 ver 4.5, etc) that the Warp 3 supported version of Warp
Server was replaced altho IBM has committed to support for Warp Server
4 until 2001.  There are ways to install the Server portion of Warp
Server over Warp 4 but it was not a normally supported configuration.  

The upshot of this is that there were 3 distinct OS/2 Warp products
(not counting the Server Advanced and SMP offshoots) all in active
service until just recently: Warp 3, Warp Server 4, and Warp 4. 
Serendipity had it that the Warp 3 and Warp Server 4 shared the same
base OS so Warp 3 users benefited from the commitment to on-going
support for Warp Server.  Now IBM has decided that it will no longer
officially support Warp 3 - after a VERY long life as operating systems
go.  

As I mentioned, there is a script floating around to re-badge Warp 3
so that the server fixpaks will install.  I would have no hesitation in
applying them if I still depended on Warp 3 and needed something
provided in the fixpak.  What IBM has said is that if you apply the
last 2 fixpaks or any future ones to Warp 3 they will not support you
in it unless you pay some hefty fees for said support.

I hope this clarifies things just a little.  At present, the service
levels for the 3 operating systems are:

Warp 3 and Warp Connect, Red or Blue:  fixpak 40
Warp Server 4: fixpak 42
Warp 4: fixpak 12


Will Honea 
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