Re: OS400 release levels

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What makes these persons 'customers'?  The fact that they pay maintenance
on existing software?  Or are they contracting you to make modifications
and perform services?  Someone running V3R7 isn't really buying any new
packages, are they?
I am not knocking the first two sources of income - put's meat on the
table.

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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James Rich <james@eaerich.com>
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Keith Carpenter wrote:

> I'd guess most customers are at V4R5 or higher so as to retain IBM
support,
> But there are always those running older hardware or whom didn't upgrade
for
> various reasons (time, cost...). The real question is what percentage of
the
> customer base do each of these older releases represent ?

Of our customers and us we have:

20% at V5R1
10% at V4R4
20% at V4R3
10% at V4R2
10% at V4R1
30% at V3R7

James Rich

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