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  3. November 2001

Re: Upgrading V4R5 --> V5R1

<snip>
> I may be overly optimistic, but I'm hoping this dropping of old hardware
is
> more of a marketing-"ploy"..  (In addition to being a method of driving
> revenues.)
>
>
> jt
<snip>

The AS/400 is so reliable and stable that this may be a way of helping to
sell new machines.  For example, the company I work for recently did a
CISC-to-RISC upgrade from a B70 for a large healthcare group.  They were not
short on funds to upgrade.  However, the B70 met their needs for 13 years.
Granted, it was running an auxillary department and not the main patient
accounting system, but it's incredible that any "server" could meet the
business needs for this long.  So IBM has a wonderful system, but part of
its greatness is also a detriment to selling additional systems or upgrades.
Retiring support for older systems helps to encourage these purchases.

Chuck

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