Discontinuance of support for the *M36

  It would seem that IBM is again looking to abandon the small business 
customer in the IBM Midrange arena.  I am referring to the apparent 
discontinuance of support for the *M36.

This move is puzzling for two reasons:

1)  The costs to IBM for supporting this feature must be relatively low, 
since it's considered to be stable.

2)  The "experiment" to push S/36 customers over to the AS/400, when the 
AS/400 first came out, failed miserably.  Why would IBM want to go through 
that embarrassment again?

  The primary impact of this move is going to be to small businesses, the 
ones that have managed to retain their functional S/36 code.  They are 
traditionally the ones to be the "least squeaky" wheel.

  Any thoughts?

  -mark
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