The SAP management decided in August 2010 to extend the mainstream maintenance for SAP NetWeaver Identity Management version 7.1 from 3 years to 5 years. This means that SAP will regularly support this product until December 31st., 2013.  

With this step, SAP reacted to one of the major concerns of customers who just recently went life with the IDM product. See also the entries in the Product Availability Matrix (PAM) on the SAP Service Market Place (SMP login required).