RE: Planning for an iSeries future

Except you're guaranteeing that you'll always be several levels behind in 
OS/400 because the older machine will be too old to run the newest level. 
And you can't upgrade the newer one because your DR machine won't be able 
to support it.

And who wants their development machine stuck at V4 when their production 
machine is running the latest and greatest.  That would really chaff my 
chaps.  Or vice versa.  I can do all this neat stuff in development but 
can't put it into production for 4 years?

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




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Plan B:
 
Disaster recovery, development, web serving, etc...
 
Consider keeping this box for 5 years.  Buy a new 820 in 12 to 15 months. 
Migrate to it gradually, making it a neat clean machine.  Keep this box 
for
disaster, overload, training, historical data, and perhaps as your 
intranet.
 
 
Plan to have two boxes in service at all times..  Put the 820 on a 4 year
lease and at the end of the 4 years buy it and start the lease on the
replacement for the 730. 
 
It'd be real cheap business-continuation insurance.  I have to believe you
could make an awesome case for this, one that makes everyone look like a
hero.
 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Monday, April 21, 2003 13:50:31
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Planning for an iSeries future
 
I was wondering .... As we talk about the situation with my AS/400 Model
730/2C6F/2068/1510...
 
Is there anyone else who is in the same situation I find our company in?
That is, being on a 730 and facing the dilemma of losing the upgrade path 
to
the 8xx boxes as of October 2003?
 
Or is our company the only company that has allowed this to happen? 
 
Did everyone else upgrade to 8xx last year?
 
Kenneth

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