Re: FTP on V3R2

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyone interested in purchasing a slightly used 5364 ??

I went to see a customer just Yesterday who is still running a 5362,
with a 9332-200 external disk and a 6157 tape drive (all piled on top of
each other of course). Purchased in 1982, still on maintenance (though
not IBM), still heating the computer room.  They want the code ported to
an AS/400 and wonder if a little 270 will give them a performance boost.
Um, Yah I think so.

Seems like the main point here is whether such customers would PAY to
keep support for these old machines and their software. There comes a
point where a vendor simply could not get enough revenue to cover the
costs. At that point the customers wanting to stay the course go on
alone. Those too chicken, move up to a supported platform/release.  As I
see it: economics 101.

 - Larry

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Larry Bolhuis           | Cogito ergo mercari iSeries 
Arbor Solutions, Inc.   |
(616) 451-2500          |               (I think, therefore I buy iSeries.)
(616) 451-2571 -fax     |
lbolhuis@arbsol.com     |        #3  1951-2001
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