Re: V2R3 to V3R2 upgrade sticker shock

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Carl,

In a message dated 97-05-01 11:41:31 EDT, you write:

> Thanks for the advice.  I'll check back.  This is the stuff that IBM used
to
>  licence you for once and you never had to pay another cent again for the
OS.
>  Ahhh the good old days.

Yep.  I tried to get my client base (which contained SEVERAL small accounts
at the time) to protest the IBM charge for OS/400 upgrades when they were
first implemented.  The small minority that did were already known as
"whiners" at IBM.  The rest are now paying the price...

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

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Herbert Harold Vreeland
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