End of Life (EOL) for Former McDATA Products Policy Statement for former McDATA extension storage networking products effective July 2000

Policy for EOL of former McDATA products includes the following elements:

• Internal Announcement of Withdrawal from Marketing (WFM) to all sales and distribution channels
  
• Determination of Last Customer Ship date (LCS)
  
• Estimated End of Support date (EOS)
  
• RPQ Options, if any, for extended product availability
  
• Definition of Replacement Product (RP) if applicable
  

Individual customers who may be affected by the Withdrawal From Marketing actions will be contacted directly by a representative.

We will provide software support for our extension storage networking software (except UltraNet Works software) for (a) the then current Release and the greater of (i) the two immediately preceding Releases or (ii) all Releases made available in the 12 months preceding the release of the then current Release.

We will provide software support for UltraNet Works software for the then current Release and for the immediately preceding Release for period of 8 months after a new Release was made available.

Once a product has been Withdrawn From Marketing, the maintenance coverage will continue to be available up to the End of Support date. Our customers will be notified at contract renewal of any maintenance price changes or support level changes. Formal notification will be made to all maintenance-paying customers of record advising them of the EOS dates.