<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Mike,<br><br></div>Let me add this to the mix as it seems to also concern the FCX family :<br><br><a href="http://community.brocade.com/t5/Ethernet-Switches-Routers/Most-of-Brocade-switches-unsupported-in-last-IronWare-8-0-40/m-p/83986#U83986">http://community.brocade.com/t5/Ethernet-Switches-Routers/Most-of-Brocade-switches-unsupported-in-last-IronWare-8-0-40/m-p/83986#U83986</a><br><br></div>Best regards.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-05 1:57 GMT+01:00 Mike Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mkallen@gmail.com" target="_blank">mkallen@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Robert, I am forwarding this into the product team at Brocade. It does sound disconcerting, but what I will say is that new software will continue to be released for the ICX6xxx series, it will be as patch or maintenance releases. I believe the reason for this is that there are some major features being added in the next couple of releases, and the older hardware will not support some of these. Over the past few versions, some specific minor features have been ported or back-rev'd into certain patch releases as well, so I wouldn't view this as the end of the line in any way for the ICX 6xxx product. There are some unique advantages in the newer 7xxx hardware, but the 6610s are still very versatile platforms.<div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Robert Hass <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robhass@gmail.com" target="_blank">robhass@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi<br></div>Just read release notes for IronWare 8.0.40.<br></div><br>Most of products are NOT supported starting this release. I'm very negative supprised.<br></div>It's very very dirty move from Brocade to existing customers as we have 400+ switches.<br><br></div>For example compact switches like ICX6430-C12 released 2.5 year ago will NOT receive new software, a little disaster from customer point of view ?<br><br></div>Just few me 3 cents, as now I'm regret that we invested in Brocade. Probably will not buy anything from them anymore after this action. Anybody has same point of view like me ?<br><br></div>Rob<br><br></div>
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