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I know that this will strike many of you as ridiculous, but IBM is in business to make a profit. They charge you for upgrades to V5R1, because it costs money to bring out V5R1. You could have stayed at V4R2, and not had the increased function, you could have bought a M270 and gotten V5R1 that way, but anyway you look at it, IBM needs to offset the costs of bringing on the new technology. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com "Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@G1.com> To: "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent by: cc: midrange-l-admin@m Subject: RE: Getting legal! idrange.com 07/29/2002 11:24 AM Please respond to midrange-l This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Indeed, I don't NEED r510 and have been running the website just fine on r420, but I WANTed some of the new OS features and such. If there's no way around paying massive amounts of money to run r510 on a "hobby" machine that I paid less for than a PC, then I guess I'll be going back (except maybe to r440 or so). I'd like to avoid replacing the machine, as I've only just got it maxed out. And yes, it heats the townhouse wonderfully and soon will be useful on my boat (if I had one). Or I could scratch install r510 every 71 days or so... I guess this explains the lack of AS/400 tools developers, homegrown utilities, and the like? -----Original Message----- From: John Ross [mailto:jross-ml@netshare400.com] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:10 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Getting legal! Working for A BP may get you a discount but it is still not going to be cheap. I had 60 or 90 days to get software subscription before they charged me currency access fee (penalty), had to prove the purchase date. I would talk with someone at your company, if it is any size at all they maybe know of customers getting rid of AS/400's with V5R1 you could get cheap. If you are just looking to run your website on it you may not need V5R1. I am not sure how web serving worked on V4R2, I started on V4R3 You could also look at getting a 250 they are not to bad in price for an AS400 (around $8,400, should be less working for a BP) and comes with a nice setup, you would only need to add WDS, if you want to program on it. And another option is to look at companies that host web sites on an AS400 (yes I run one) Info on the 250 http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/hardware/mod250.htm I think you are about to find out why people take an old PC put Linux and Apache on it. John Ross _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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