Re: How Old is your AS/400(s)...

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With only 379 respondents, it tells you most accounts aren't
looking at the web or Search400....

The large percentage of older machines isn't really a giant
surprise, since "most" folks upgrade only every 4-5 years 
and not every 12 months as IBM would like...

I suspect if you saw some of the LARGE accounts with 3,000+
machines and what they have to go through to do an upgrade,
you wouldn't be surprised at the large numbers of older machines.

Just think about doing a version upgrade for that number of 
boxes. It would take 2-3 years to just swap out boxes and try
to stay current on release & ptf's.



Chuck Lewis wrote:
> 
> Did you folks happen to see the "How Old is Your AS/400" poll on
> Search400
> ( http://search400.techtarget.com/poll/1,289525,sid3,00.html ) ? Some
> pretty surprising numbers, I think  !!!
> 
> Chuck
> 
>   How old is your oldest AS/400 still in use?
> 
>   3 to 8 years (139 votes)  42%
>   1 to 3 years (101 votes)  30%
>   8 to 12 years (56 votes) 17%
>   Brand spankin' new (16 votes)  5%
>   More than 12 years (14 votes) 4%
>   I don't remember (6 votes)  2%
> 
>    Total Votes: 332
> 
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