RE: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

Our software is inexpensive utility software that works for
them. If we dropped support they would just plug along
without support. Their current release works just fine for
their small operation and have no current need to upgrade.

How many businesses gripe, complain, whine when Microsoft
keeps coming out with new releases costing business $$$.

If a company is running on V4R5 or earlier, they are for a
reason. Heck just imagine how many S36 or S38 or AS400 V3R2
or V3R7 machines are still being used.

We are a company that does not force our customers to
upgrade every time IBM comes out with a new release and many
customers purchase for that reason. We have a customer that
has been delaying upgrading because one vendor is going to
charge them over $10,000 just for the vendors upgrade fee.

We don't charge our customers when they upgrade their
Hardware or their OS. But most do and many times the vendor
fees are the reason companies balk at OS upgrades.

We shall continue to support several releases back and keep
our customer base happy, that's what it should be about.

Allen


-----Original Message-----
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Michael Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:52 AM
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Subject: Re: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

Or a reason to move to another platform. Of course, not
upgrading h/w or s/w
is effectively not an active iSeries/i5 installation anyway.

On 10/18/06, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you were nice and caring, you'd drop support for V4R5

so that they'd

have a "business" excuse to use to management as a reason

to upgrade.

How many payroll accounting packages out there are still

actively

supported for MS-DOS 3.1?

Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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I have NO desire for another one of these, we only keep it
around because we have a few customers (20) still on V4R5
and being the nice and carrying software developers that

we

are we continue to support them :)

Allen

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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:53 PM
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Subject: Re: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

   I've got a client wanting someone to take the whole

box.

It's taking up
   space in the hallway.
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   Paul Nelson
   Arbor Solutions, Inc.
   708-670-6978  Cell
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     From: "Allen" <rallen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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     Date: 10/17/2006 04:48PM
     Subject: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

     Does anyone know where I can get Feature Card 2617

for

an
     Old Model 500?

     Thanks

     Allen

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