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By purchasing, asking for and/or using customer support you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. You are not required to sign these terms, however if you do not agree to these conditions then you should not buy, ask for or use support. These Support Terms & Conditions form Annex A to the Atomikos Software License Agreement and are governed by it. In the event of any conflict, the order of precedence set out in the License Agreement applies. Support is provided on a commercially reasonable efforts basis and does not constitute guaranteed resolution obligations, uptime guarantees, managed services, or hosting services.

TC 1: Bug, Incident, Issue and Status

An issue (or ticket) is defined as a problem caused by an ATOMIKOS product and experienced by you. A support incident is a single, specific, issue-based request for support. A request that raises multiple issues will generate the need for and use of multiple support incidents. A bug is a special type of issue where the behavior of an ATOMIKOS product is different from what is advertised in our documentation. An incident is considered closed (resolved) when any of the following occur:

• The issue in question is a feature of the software.
• There is a functional clarification related to the use of the software.
• A workaround procedure was made available to address your needs.
• In case of a bug: a new release was made available that fixes the issue, requiring you to upgrade.
• The issue concerns additional functionality that may or may not be addressed in future versions of the software.
• The issue cannot be reconstructed by ATOMIKOS.

Any incidents opened by you will be closed automatically if you cannot be reached by ATOMIKOS within 3 attempts on 3 different business days.

TC 2: Production vs Development Support

Development and testing use of the Software under a development subscription is governed by the separate ExtremeTransactions Development License, available at ExtremeTransactions Development License.

Formula	Includes	Excludes	Availability
Production support	Remote access to get bug fixes, new releases and workaround advice in order to resolve problems encountered in your production environment.	Development support or consulting.	At least 3 years after the initial availability of each new stable release.
Development support	Remote advice on the installation, configuration and use of Atomikos.	Production support, customer-application-specific or third-party product issues.	At least 3 years after the initial availability of each new stable release.
Consulting	Professional advice for issues outside the Atomikos products. Performed by an Atomikos engineer, either remote or on-site at the customer, during normal business hours.	Support.	At least 3 years after the initial availability of each new stable release.

Both development and production support are exclusively available to paying customers ('subscribers') of our commercial product (ExtremeTransactions) only. No support is given for TransactionsEssentials.

TC 3: Severity and Performance

The following table defines the severity and performance related to an issue. Any differences on your purchase order take precedence over these only where explicitly mutually agreed in writing.

Severity	Description	Formula	Target Response Time	Resolution
1	Catastrophic production problem which severely impacts Your production systems, or in which Your production systems are down or not functioning; loss of production data and no procedural work around exists.	Production support.	1 business day	Work continuously until resolved or expired.
2	High-impact problem in which Your operation is disrupted but there is capacity to remain productive and maintain necessary business-level operations.	Production support.	1 business day	An immediate workaround or a fix in the next planned release.
3	Medium-to-low impact problem which involves partial non-critical functionality loss impairing some operations but allowing Your systems to continue to function. This may include a minor issue with limited loss or no loss of functionality or impact to Your operations and usually includes documentation errors.	Production support.	2 business days	An immediate workaround or a fix in the next planned release.
4	All problems outside production use.	Development support.	Planned in with customer	A workaround or a fix in an upcoming release.

Atomikos may challenge a classification it considers incorrect or exaggerated (an 'abusive qualification'). In that event, the Parties will determine the correct severity in mutual consultation. Pending that determination, the response and resolution times of the challenged severity level do not bind Atomikos, and the last agreed or unchallenged severity applies.

Business days are counted as Monday to Friday. Business hours are from 9:00 to 17:00 CET on business days. Support is limited to 12 months from your purchase date of an Atomikos support subscription or until the date mentioned during purchase. A response to an issue/incident may consist of the acknowledgement by ATOMIKOS of your incident report, and may not necessarily resolve your incident.

TC 4: Property

The software is protected by Belgian intellectual property laws, other intellectual property laws and international treaty provisions. The software and all associated intellectual rights remain either the exclusive property of ATOMIKOS or that of certain licensors to ATOMIKOS. ATOMIKOS warrants that no part of the present contract interferes with the rights of any third party and that you may make full use of the license granted to you in the full knowledge of the above. The intellectual property rights on the software and its documentation, any feedback provided by you as well as all copies, updates or possible extensions, including new functions that may be developed by ATOMIKOS for you, remain the sole property of ATOMIKOS, or of certain licensors to ATOMIKOS, unless otherwise agreed in writing.

TC 5: Limitations

Support concerns issues that arise from the usage of the software, conform the specifications in the ATOMIKOS documentation. Not included are new features that you request, modifications to features that are not causing problems when using the software or ports to unsupported platforms or environments. When a newer version of the software is available then you should upgrade first before asking support. Also excluded is custom coding (i.e., writing customer-specific code outside the ATOMIKOS product boundaries). You are not allowed to disclose any benchmark results for the software without any prior and explicit consent of ATOMIKOS.

TC 6: Communications

Asking Support Questions

All support is remote unless otherwise indicated in the formula you have purchased. Remote problem cases are to be reported by the named dedicated persons as indicated in your support purchase order and emailed to support@atomikos.com where they will be pulled into the Atomikos ticketing system. When submitting a support question, the Customer sends only the diagnostic elements needed to handle it, such as log files, traces, configuration files or screenshots. The Customer does not include personal data, transaction data, information covered by banking secrecy, regulated information or other sensitive data, and anonymises or at least pseudonymises these elements before sending them. Atomikos neither requests nor requires such data for standard support. You agree to supply the following minimum information for each issue:

• The steps to reproduce the issue
• The expected behaviour of the software
• The observed behaviour of the software

Upon receipt, ATOMIKOS will generate a timestamp and ticket (number) to identify the problem. This ticket should be used by you for all further communications related to the case. IMPORTANT: if you do not receive a ticket number via confirmation email within one business day then your message may have been blocked in our spam filter. In that case, please call us and let us know via one of these phone numbers where our international call center will escalate appropriately:

• +3215613055 (primary number)
• +3252257479 (backup number - ONLY IF primary number doesn't respond)

Downloading Fixes

Prior to release 3.9, fixes are to be downloaded via the ExtremeTransactionsForMaven.zip distro available via Maven repository As of release 3.9, you can simply configure and use our Maven Repository settings.

TC 7: Refund Policy

Our support fees are paid up-front in order to guarantee availability of our support staff. For this reason, we do not offer refunds.

TC 8: Feature Flags and Experimental Functionality

From time to time, often in response to a support request, ATOMIKOS may make functionality available through a feature flag (also called a feature toggle): an optional setting that you can switch on or off in your own environment in order to test that functionality. A feature flag is always temporary: after testing, it is either standardised for all customers in a later release (as a standard feature or a configurable option) or removed again for everyone. New feature flags are always identified explicitly in the release notes for the relevant release, so you should always read the release notes for each release. While a feature flag may be provided as part of support, the functionality behind it is experimental and, for as long as it remains behind a feature flag, does not form part of the supported software or of its documented, stable API. Such functionality is provided "as is", is not covered by any warranty or by the response times and support commitments in these terms, and its default value or behaviour may change, or it may be removed entirely, including where it is later standardised or discontinued (with any material change communicated through the release notes). You are solely responsible for deciding whether to enable any feature flag and for re-validating your own environment and configuration after each release. Nothing in this section requires ATOMIKOS to maintain, support, document or continue any feature-flagged functionality.

Appendix A: Release Numbering and Backward Compatibility

In general, we follow the semantic versioning strategy outlined in semver.org and with backward compatibility we mean compatibility at the Atomikos API and configuration level.

Release Numbers

Release numbers are of the form x.y.z[Mi]:

• x is the major version - a change indicating a big difference in functionality that might break backward compatibility.
• y is the minor version - a change indicated a minor difference in functionality that maintains backward compatibility.
• z is the maintenance version - a change indicating that one or more bugs have been fixed, without any drastic changes.
• Mi is the optional milestone version - indicating an unstable release made available only for experimental purposes.

Snapshot Release

Identified by x.y.z-SNAPSHOT, a snapshot release is meant for internal development purposes only, and definitely not for production use. Example: 3.7.0-SNAPSHOT means an ongoing development build for what should become release 3.7 at some point in time.

Milestone Release

A milestone release is any release identified by x.y.zMi (i.e., with Mi suffix). Milestone releases are not supported: we do not guarantee that maintenance releases will be published at any time. Rather, milestone releases represent public early access releases (beta releases). Example: 3.7.0M2 indicates a milestone release for what should become release 3.7 at some point in time.

Stable Release

A release x.y becomes stable as soon as it is no longer made available as a milestone or snapshot release. In general, there will be one or more maintenance releases for each stable release. Example: 3.5 is a stable release because we have released 3.5.0.

Maintenance Release

By maintenance release, we mean any release identified by x.y.z. Example: 3.5.1 is a maintenance release (usually fixing one or more bugs in the prior release 3.5.0).

Appendix B: Important Dates

The following table summarizes when our current and past releases expire in terms of support; from those dates on it is highly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release.

Stable Release	First Published	Support Expires On
3.2	September 29, 2007	September 29, 2010
3.3	April 18, 2008	April 18, 2011
3.4	October 3, 2008	October 3, 2011
3.5	January 13, 2009	January 13, 2012
3.6	December 28, 2009	December 28, 2012
3.7	February 26, 2011	February 26, 2014
3.8	May 29, 2012	May 29, 2015
3.9	July 20, 2013	March 11, 2019
4.0	July 19, 2016	Oct 31, 2022
5.0	April 25, 2019	May 5, 2026
6.0	May 5, 2023	N/A

Extended support may optionally be available beyond the expiry dates (at a higher fee) - Contact Us to find out more.

Appendix C: Which License Applies

We use a number of different licensing schemes in harmony with our business model. This page explains which license applies to the Atomikos distribution you are using. See Which License Applies.