As described on the migrations Overview page, the four "Rose XDE" products are being withdrawn and four new "Rose only" offerings have been introduced:
Customers with entitlements to the withdrawn products have a migration path to the replacement offerings, but also have alternate migration paths available, to the following products:
In distilled form, here is what you should do if you own Rose XDE and use Rose:
We will start converting Rose XDE entitlements into Rose entitlements on maintenance renewal dates commencing Sep 29, 2006 You can begin to adopt version 7 of Rose even while your entitlements remain as Rose XDE. We call this "anticipatory access" to Rose v7. It means you do not have to request conversion of your entitlements from Rose XDE offerings to Rose-only offerings. You can just wait for us to migrate them automatically, on the next maintenance renewal date. You can also begin operational adoption of the contemporary MDD offerings to which you are entitled at any time you wish, without regard to whether your current maintenance is based on a Rose XDE offering, a Rose-Only offering, or the actual contemporary MDD offering. We call this "anticipatory access" to the contemporary offerings. It means you do not have to request conversions of your entitlements from Rose XDE or from Rose to the contemporary offerings. You can just wait for us to migrate them automatically, at some point in the future. As you adopt contemporary MDD offerings you can request that your entitlements be moved to those offerings, but as just noted there is no requirement that you do so and eventually we will move them for you.
The document links below offer more detailed procedural guidance about how to navigate through the migration process, depending upon which specific Rose editions are being used. The following definitions will be useful as you read the documents
The term adoption refers to the process of starting to use a newer product, operationally The term migration refers to the process of converting an entitlement to one product into an entitlement to a newer product The term Anticipatory Access refers to a mechanism that permits holder of an entitlement to an older product, to begin adoption of a newer product without first requesting migration of the entitlements The term Retrospective Access refers to a mechanism that permits holder of an entitlement to a newer product, continue to access the product images of an older (predecessor) product
Note: the documents below only provide guidance regarding entitlement migrations. Optional tradeup scenarios are not included. For information about tradeups, see Migration Details
References in this document to IBM products, programs, or services do not imply that they will be available in all countries in which IBM operates. Product release dates and/or capabilities referenced in this document may change at any time at IBM's sole discretion based on market opportunities or other factors, and are not intended to be a commitment to future product or feature availability in any way. All statements regarding IBM future direction or intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.
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