[foxboro] Lifecycle AW51D/E

Are there any owners of AW51 D & E boxes out there running 6.x?

We recently reviewed the Inv. Lifecycle report and found that the AW51 D & E 
boxes are no longer available from jan 2007 on. Invensys advises to change 
to G boxes and upgrade to version 7.0.
I hate to imagine what would happen if our host box (E) would fail 
(motherboard or sun Proccessor) and we can't get a replacement within a 
couple of days....
I probably can't convince management to replace and upgrade a perfectly good 
system, only because of the end of lifetime issue....So we'll probably try 
to obtain a spare E box.
I would be interested in knowing the strategies on this of the other I/A 
users.

Thanks & Rgds,

Dirk Pauwels - DCS coordinator
Engineering dept.
Hexion Specialty Chemicals Belgium
E mail: dirk.pauwels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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