Re: Upgrading to new AS400/i-Series

[sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

We recently upgraded our I-Series and actually dropped a tier according to
IBM's tier matrix.  We actually doubled our CPW & still went down 2 tiers.

We went from a 820 to a 520.

Are  your customers going to a much larger box, doesn't sound like it from
the comment they are staying in the same tier.  Is the tier according to
IBM or MAPICS?

Most of our ALF's or maintenance fees from our vendors actually dropped
because of us switching tiers.  MAPICS was not effected because we are on
concurrent users.

About 4 years ago we bit the bullet & switched to concurrent users on
MAPICS, just because they were killing us when we upgraded hardware.


Steve Jones


                                                                           
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To the list,
I need some assistance if anyone has gone through an upgrade to one of the
new iSeries.  The question deals with any additional fees from MAPICS to
move to the new box.

I have 3 customers that are interested in upgrading to a new box but have
been told by the affiliate that it could range in the hundreds of thousands
of dollars to do so.  Here is what they want to do:

1)    NO NEW MODULES
2)    NO CHANGE IN LICENSING AGREEMENT (IE: KEEP WHATEVER METHOD THAT IS
CURRENTLY LICENSED)
3)    STAY ON THE SAME TIER BOX (upgrade is primarily for faster box, more
dasd, more memory)

Has anyone gone through this and have you had to pay for MAPICS to give you
the license keys?

MAPICS, if you see this message, please contact me offline so we can
discuss this...

Thanks to all...
Eric A. Wolf
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