Been scouring the web and found a lot of hints but I'm struggling to find a definitive answer.
Insofar as I can tell, pretty much all Symantec/Backupexec products come with a minimum of 12 months maintenance built in to the sale price. Given this, would I be assuming too much in the following scenario?
- Customer has a new WS2012R2 server and wants to buy in backupexec quickstart 2012 to use on this server.
- I understand that WS2012 is unsupported as a media server, but it appears to work nevertheless given a fair bit of testing for this customers environment with the evaluation version of BE2012
- Personally have the 'heebies' in being associated with an unsupported product scenario like this, so my real question is ... given BE2014 is less than 12 months away, and more likely 6 months away, would a purchase of BE2012 quickstart now, that presumably comes with 12 months maintenance, give this customer rights to automatic no cost upgrade into BE2014 when its available? This would then settle my own mind in relation to an ongoing extraneous unsupported customer.