Originally posted by: mikeladd

It seems the sales rep from IBM for the client I am working at has convinced upper mgt here that the Launcher is going to be replaced soon with Message Broker. And by soon, they seem to believe in less than 2 years.

We are half way through a 12 month project and now they (the client) wants to move everything to WMB. Typically, this is not a problem but they are also using Trading Manager, which will not run on WMB. It seems the IBM Rep is saying to keep running TMgr on Launcher, but move everything else to WMB. If the Launcher is going away soon, why would they tell us to keep running TMgr, but nothing else (I know the answer, because they haven't ported TMgr to WMB, yet). But if they will support the Launcher for TMgr, why wouldn't they support it for everything else?

So, does anyone know what the End Of Life is planned/expected/hinted-at for the Launcher?
Thanks,
Mike
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Originally posted by: SLWatts

An announcement was just released on October 2nd for WTX 8.3.

You will find that the WTX with Launcher v8.3 product is being released. With IBM's standard support policy this means that the Launcher will be supported for a minimum of five years from the release date (Dec 11, 2009) plus the possibility of three years of support extensions.
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