Re: Discontinuance of support for the *M36

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Pat,

At 5/4/00 10:10 AM -0400, you wrote:
> >   It would seem that IBM is
> again looking to abandon the small business
> > customer in the IBM Midrange arena.  I am referring to the
> apparent
> > discontinuance of support for the *M36.
>
> Other than WSU,assembler routines and lost RPG source code, there
> really
> isn't any  good reason to NOT go to S36EE which works just fine. IBM
> just doesn't want to continue supporting SSP and there may be some
> migration issues that we aren't aware of. I'm not a big defender of
> IBM
> but the support of SSP had to end some time, so I guess it's now.

 That's I still don't see the logic, since the 36EE (w/ SSP
effectively supported) is still available.

> The other possible solution, is the folks
> running in this environment
> simply stay at the release that allows the M36. There are no rules
> that
> force you to go to the next release.....

 Of course not, but why kill the income from those customers'
upgrades?

 -mark