Re: Upgrading required? (Was: Getting legal!)

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After you've been to COMMON once or twice then why else do you go other
than to go to '(new) seminars on the (new) features'?  Party out of town?

Or was your point that you couldn't upgrade because of the cost?  I feel
that IBM has gone to great lengths to either reduce cost, or to spread the
cost out.  Instead of paying for every upgrade then you purchase software
subscription.

Did we used to get them free years ago?  Yes, I don't believe it cost
anything to go from V1 to V2.  However IBM's strategy in the past was to
obsolete the hardware and force a migration to a new platform:  S/34 to
S/36.  S/36 to As/400 or S/38 to AS/400.  Now they can:  Add features,
make the migration less painful and still make money thus remaining in
business.

While I don't believe that 5250 and DDS are the only future for the
iSeries, the rest of your argument has some merit as to where IBM spent
their development.

Rob Berendt
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




"Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@chello.nl>
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Hello  Al,

>You didn't have to put V5R1 on.
Is this really so? If it is true, that after the next year change
upgrading from V4R3 and older OS-releases to V5xxx is not possible any
more, then a lot of the installed base on those older OS-releases can join
the oldtimers club. At that time there is not much difference between an
AS/400 and a Bugatti, a Spijker or a Ford T Model 50.

Even COMMON may suffer a drop in members, as its (new) seminars on the
(new) features are not interesting for those who cannot upgrade anymore.

>I bet developing it costed more than $.20.
True, but money not well spent. The strength of the AS/400 seems the
weakness of the iSeries, being called proprietary. What is wrong with
that? There was no money to enhance DDS, but there was a budget to port
Lynux to th iSeries. The budget was (I believe) one billion dollar. No
money? Please, ..... As if SQL, Java and Internet are  the answers.

Should we now all upgrade to V5R2, when it is released, or shall we all
(and I mean: all) ignore the release, stop upgrading? Advising to do the
latter is sounding like a Luddite.

Just my two Euro cents.

Regards.
Carel Teijgeler





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