17³Ô¹Ï

September 30, 2005

2005: HP-UX Platform End-of-Life

Dear 17³Ô¹Ï Customer:

NOTE: The information in this letter affects only those customers using the HP-UX Operating System (OS). If this does not apply to you, please disregard.

This letter is to inform you that 17³Ô¹Ï is announcing its intention to end-of-life the HP-UX operating system in September 2006. 17³Ô¹Ï will not produce any new feature releases on the HP-UX operating system after the 2006.09 software release. 17³Ô¹Ï will continue to support service packs and bug fixes for this last feature release on HP-UX until September 2007.

MORE ABOUT SYNOPSYS COMPUTE PLATFORMS:

Information on the operating systems and versions supported by 17³Ô¹Ï products is available at the 17³Ô¹Ï web site here.

If you have any questions, please contact either your local support team or your 17³Ô¹Ï sales representative.