RE: V5R1 (why upgrade?)

[Chris Whisonant <chris.whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know I would much better bet on IBM shipping me a new recovery system
(considering that I was on 4.5 or 5.1) than hope that I would be able to get
my hands a refurb. or used machine, cards, towers, etc... quicker than IBM
could get me the system.

Sorry you couldn't get the new 820. We dealt with that last year. We decided
to hold off with our 720s another year (lease runs out this year) and go
with the 9xx?? models.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Draper Dale
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:30 AM
To: 'midrange-lmidrangecom'
Subject: RE: V5R1 (why upgrade?)


Good point, but used and refurbished equipment should be available I would
think.
Or am I whistling in the dark there?

We, like many, work on bit of a shoestring. Hell, I coulnd't get management
to buy the upgrade to a nice brand new 620 (or was it an 820?) that with the
deal IBM was giving, would have been very close in cost to what we had been
paying. (We were on a 3 year lease). And yes, this is the primary machine
for all our financials, etc.



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Whisonant [mailto:chris.whisonant@comporium.com]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:19 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: V5R1 (why upgrade?)


>It seems that we have no business reason to upgrade out box to V5R1,
>everything is just working dandy with V4R4, so am in no rush to have my
>system slow down because of the new OS ( am running a 9406 S20 38G DASD) .


Do you have a dedicated backup machine? Is this am "important" business
machine? In the event of a crash or natural disaster or any other disaster,
you would not be able to order new hardware that will run V4R4 - just ask Al
Barsa.

BTW, Al Barsa, I was at your Common session in October and we are supposed
to upgrade from V4R4 to V5R1 on our production box (720) in a couple of
weeks. We just upgraded our backup machine last week without a hitch. I wish
we had not taken this long, but at least we had a dedicated backup/failover
machine.

Chris


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