End-of-life product

At this stage, a vendor stops the marketing, selling, or provisioning of parts, services, or software updates for the product.

All users can continue to access discontinued products, but cannot receive security updates and technical support.

Manufacturers may also continue to offer parts and services even when it is not profitable, to demonstrate good faith and to retain a reputation of durability.

[2][3][4] Notable examples are the web browser Netscape Communicator, which was released in 1998 by Netscape Communications under an open-source license to the public,[5][6] and the office suite StarOffice, which was released by Sun Microsystems in October 2000 as OpenOffice.org (LibreOffice forked from this).

For example, the Sega Dreamcast's EOLA was issued on January 31, 2001,[13] 60 days before the last order date.