Re: V2R3 to V3R2 upgrade sticker shock

I know there is nothing much we can do, it does make me feel better to bitch.  
Oh well.  One might argue that the hardware is alot cheaper now.  At least
some things are getting cheaper.
Carl

At 08:24 AM 5/3/97 -0400, DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:
>Carl,
>
>In a message dated 97-05-01 11:41:31 EDT, you write:
>
>> Thanks for the advice.  I'll check back.  This is the stuff that IBM used
>to
>>  licence you for once and you never had to pay another cent again for the
>OS.
>>  Ahhh the good old days.
>
>Yep.  I tried to get my client base (which contained SEVERAL small accounts
>at the time) to protest the IBM charge for OS/400 upgrades when they were
>first implemented.  The small minority that did were already known as
>"whiners" at IBM.  The rest are now paying the price...
>
>Dean Asmussen
>Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
>Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
>E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM
>
>"Clothes don't make a man, but clothes have gotten many a man a good job." --
>Herbert Harold Vreeland
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