[isapros] Re: FW: [ISAServer] RainConnect end of life....?

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:07:19 -0500

What was the 1PM question?

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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MVP -- ISA Firewalls

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Harrison
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:35 PM
> To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isapros] Re: FW: [ISAServer] RainConnect end of life....?
> 
> I'm still trying to get the answer to the 1PM question... 
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas W Shinder
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:20
> To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isapros] FW: [ISAServer] RainConnect end of life....?
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> Did you see this? I wonder if this signals a possible 
> Microsoft acquisition?
> 
> Tom 
> 
> 
> Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
> Site: www.isaserver.org
> Blog: http://blogs.isaserver.org/shinder/
> Book: http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7
> MVP -- ISA Firewalls
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dieter Rauscher [mailto:Dieter.Rauscher@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:02 PM
> To: isaserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ISAServer] RainConnect end of life....?
> 
> Did you know, that RainFinity's RainConnect is dead?
> 
> I got an E-Mail from a customer who tried to purchase 
> RainConnect recently.
> It's in German but the most important part is in English.....
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Zusammengefaßt ein paar Worte zu RainConnect und dem Grund, 
> weshalb ich Ihrer Anfragen nach neuen RainConnect Lizenzen 
> nicht nachkommen kann. 
>   
> Wie telefonisch angedeutet ist in den letzen Tagen für die 
> Produkte RainWall und RainConnect eine schwerwiegende 
> Entscheidung getroffen worden. 
>   
> Nach reiflicher Überlegung, hat EMC beschlossen, den Vertrieb 
> von RainWall und RainConnect, die Hochverfügbarkeitslösungen 
> für Microsoft ISA Server und Check Point Firewalls, 
> einzustellen. EMC Kunden und Partner der Lösung Rainfinity 
> Global File Virtualization (GFV) sind nicht von dieser 
> Nachricht betroffen. 
>   
> Kunden mit laufendem RainWall oder RainConnect Support 
> Vertrag werden für die gesamte Dauer Ihres Support Vertrages 
> technische Unterstützung erhalten.
> Kunden können auch bestehende Support Verträge bis zum 31. 
> Dezember 2007 verlängern. 
>   
> RainConnect und RainWall befinden sich ab sofort in einem 
> Ende-of-Life Prozeß und wir können daher keine Bestellungen 
> für neue Lizenzen annehmen. 
>   
> In der offiziellen Mitteilung, die gerade an unsere RainWall 
> und RainConnect Partner verschickt wird heißt es: 
>   
> "This letter is to inform you that after careful 
> consideration, EMC has decided to halt the sale of RainWall 
> and RainConnect, the high availability solution for Microsoft 
> ISA Server and CheckPoint firewalls. 
>   
> EMC customers and partners of the Rainfinity Global File 
> Virtualization (GFV), formerly known as RainStorage, are not 
> impacted by this announcement.
> Rainfinity GFV customers will continue to receive engineering 
> and technical support for one of EMC's most successful and 
> strategic new products.  For any Rainfinity GFV questions, 
> please contact an EMC Sales Representative. "
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Does anybody know what's going on?
> Seems to be the only soultion for ISP Loadbalancing/high 
> availability for ISA.....and now it's dead?
> 
> Regards,
> Dieter
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