RE: The relevance of V3R2

["Gary R. Patterson" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My experience has been that AS/400 software companies track the release that
purchasers of their products use.  As time goes by, and shops upgrade to
newer releases or drop paid maintenance, it becomes cost-ineffective to
maintain support for older releases, and it gets dropped.  If clients
require support, they upgrade or figure out another approach (alternate
product, modifications, work-arounds, etc.)

I would guess that shops with stable systems (not growing into bigger boxes
or requiring new functionality) that still run CISC machines probably tend
to not buy a lot of new software products, either.  I don't know this for a
fact, but it would seem to follow that if they bought a lot of new software
products, they would probably be upgrading HW and OS, too, to handle the
increased load on their systems.

When I teach training classes, I usually ask the group what version they
use, and I rarely get a CISC response (1 in 100, maybe?)  I don't doubt that
there are CISC shops out there, but I don't know that they are spending any
money on new software (or anything else AS/400-related, for that matter).

Gary R. Patterson
NexSource, Inc.

Information technology services for business
http://www.nexsource.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Keck
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 4:29 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: The relevance of V3R2


Despite the fact that V4R6 and beyond will NOT support CISC (V3R2) as a
target release on RPG compiles (and SAVLIB's and everything else ?), won't
V3R2 environments still be used in hundred's or thousands of shops for a
couple years or more, keeping them relevant from a marketing point of view
for third party products ?  (Of course I don't recommend folks stay at V3R2,
I'm just saying I have seen many posts in this forum which lead me to think
they will continue to be around for a while.)  -DaveK

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