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Why can't IBM sell a new box and carry forward the old serial numbers? Is
there ANY reason technology-wise? This software pricing issue has got to be
hurting Rochester's sales numbers.

Chuck? You listening?

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Al Mac Wheel
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:05 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Staying current on releases? (was: Are there any System isites
on the Internet that offer accounts?)

Identify the vendor packages that are like that, and how many sites are
supposedly on that package, to get an idea of the scale of the
problem. The main reason we are still on V5R1 is management refuses to pay
over 10 times the original purchase price of the package to get it on
another IBM CPU serial #.

While other people theoretically could access our reality, it will never
happen due to paranoia about some security concerns ... we have had some
incidents, leading to tighter security.

I've
also heard plenty of harping on this list about people who can't upgrade
due to vendor package X costing an arm and a leg to upgrade.



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