RE: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

Rob, 

You make some valid points but apply that same thought
process to the auto industry.
Wouldn't you be complaining if auto companies stopped
support (maintaining) any car more then 3 years old?

It would give you a good reason to purchase a new car, but I
am sure many people would be saying my car works just fine
for it's intended purpose I just need maintenance (support)
from time to time which are much cheaper then trading up for
the new models that do the same basic task of getting me
from point A to point B. 

I am not talking about adding new features to old cars I am
talking about support (maintaining).

Allen


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<snip>
Of course, not upgrading h/w or s/w is effectively not an
active 
iSeries/i5 installation anyway.
</snip>
One of my major points...

I always gotta come back to the large standing ovation a
major software 
vendor had at their user convention when they announced they
were no 
longer supporting obsolete versions of operating systems.
Now all these 
people had "business" reasons for upgrades.

I don't expect my software vendors to release fixes for the
latest 
depreciation schedules for tax reasons for version 1.0 of
their software 
when they are on version 8.3.

I don't expect IBM to release a fix for V2R3 of i5/os for an
"Integrity 
fix" discovered in V5R4 of i5/os.

Why should be expect software vendors to keep supporting
their product on 
versions of OS no longer supported by IBM?  Isn't that
really doing a 
disservice to them?

Rob Berendt