Software Instance Life Cycle Patterns - Extended Data Pack 2024-Mar-1


This page lists all software products possessing the SoftwareInstance node kind that have product life cycle date patterns included in the Extended Data Pack 2024-Mar-1. The list comprises of data for:

  • 264 publishers
  • 1,234 software products
  • 21,155 software product versions

How Software Instance Life Cycle Patterns Can Help You

You can use software instance life cycle patterns to:

  • Identify software instances that are exposed to security/stability risks as they are no longer supported by patch updates
  • Identify software instances that you may be paying a premium maintenance subscription for
  • Identify software instances that are no longer shipping so may increase costs and risks associated with variance

Product Life Cycle Terminology

The product life cycle dates include the following milestones that were made available and used by the publisher. Note some publishers use different terminology and definitions, in these cases, we have aligned to the closest matching definition.

  • End Of Life (EOL) - at this milestone, the publisher will stop shipping the particular product
  • End Of Support (EOS) - at this milestone, the publisher will stop providing patch updates for the particular product
  • End Of Extended Support (EOES) - at this milestone, the publisher will stop providing support for the particular product.

Software Instance Life Cycle Data Supported

Note

The following table lists all the products we support. We can not guarantee to have EOL data for every single product as such data may not have been made available from the publishers. Where missing, we have provided a failure message as to the reason why.

 

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