Re: Discontinuance of support for the *M36

Your comments interest me.  I have started working with a small shop that 
has had their Sys/36 running with code that was untouched after 1984 and 
1988.  In October they ordered a new AS/400 and their Business Partner 
installed it with the old code and *M36 then a few months later moved it 
all over to the AS/400 side running in Sys36 mode.  The entire package was 
reasonably priced, and while I didn't understand the two step change-over, 
it has proven very successful.  The installation was on-time and 
on-budget.  In today's world of slipping deadlines, scope-creep, budget 
overruns, and train wrecks this is a pretty good case for IBM's track 
record regarding compatibility.  In my opinion.
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Booth Martin
booth@martinvt.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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"M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@ttec.com>
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05/03/2000 08:22 PM
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  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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