Metaframe XP End Of Life

[dtwell99]

With Metaframe XP due to come to End of Life on 30/06/07 I was just wondering if someone could answer the following questions.

I was told today by our reseller that we can only buy metaframe xp licenses until the end of the month. Is this true?

If I upgrade to presentation server 4 are my existing metaframe xp licenses still valid. We don't have subscription advantage, so would we have to purchase all new licenses.

I was recently told by a consultant that metaframe xp cannot co-exist with later versions in the farm. Is this correct?

Thanks for any response

 

[lb63640]

I do know that it's true that we can only buy the XP licenses until the end of March 2006.

 

[lb63640]

Doing a little research on this and you will be happy to know that your current XP licenses will be happy with Presentation Server.

Per the article on the Citrix website, "There are no architectural changes involved, so upgrading from MetaFrame XP to Presentation Server 4 is easy. A new license mechanism is built-in to make deploying and managing a multi-server farm faster and easier. Upgrading user licenses is no longer required as they will work with any version of Presentation Server 3.0 or higher."

Here's the link you need to get the answers you are seeking about the migration from XP to Presentation Server:

http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/migration/path.asp?contentID=20977