TWS 8.5.x End of Support policy

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The following is the policy that will be applied for Support 
> Extension of TWS 8.5.x at Sept.2016.
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> Product/Customer Unique Terms:
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> The following terms will apply to this support extension.  In the 
> event of any contradiction, inconsistency or ambiguity between the 
> terms listed below and the Statement of Work that is attached below,
> the terms below shall govern. 
> This agreement is for defect support only, which includes support 
> for both new and known defects.
> Support for products running on unsupported operating systems may be
> limited to technical assistance and existing fixes to known problems.  
> This Support Extension does not add support for new platforms or 
> operating systems that were not supported prior to the product's end
> of service (EOS) date. 
> This agreement does not guarantee migration to or coexistence with 
> later versions of the product which may become available after the 
> end of service (EOS date of this version of the product.

> The minimum support extension term is three months.  This agreement 
> may be terminated upon one month's written notice to IBM.
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> Embedded WAS 6.1 component :
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> Please notice the "limitation" for the extension support policy:
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> TWS 8.5.x embeds the  WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and it is not
> possible to upgrade it stand-alone  to high level 
>  WebSphere Application Server releases.
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>  WebSphere Application Server 6.1 uses Java 5.

Both of these Java releases
> are no longer supported and as a result there will be no further 
> security fixes made available for them. 
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>  See this link for details.  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/
> eol-135779.html . 
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> In addition, WebSphere Application Server 6.1 relies on old 
> encryption standards from 1997 that are no longer considered 
> adequate.  
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