RE: OS400 release levels

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

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I do not think that people do not upgrade because the new releases are not
better.  I think they fail to upgrade for a number of reasons
1)  Unwillingness to work after hours to apply the upgrade.
2)  Illiteracy.  Failure to have read the terms of software subscription
when there were sweet deals on it.
3)  Why fix something when it is broke the way I know it is?
4)  Trying to get the platform to fail and get old so that they can get
their other favorite platform in there.
5)  IBM doesn't have the 1 or two feature that they want in the new
release so let's cut off our noses to spite our face.
6)  Lookie what I can do with stone knives and bearskins!
7)  Dang, I am getting old.  Do I want to put something on here that them
young whippersnappers can show me up on?
8)  I don't want to give my customers any ammunition to go to their
management and say we need to upgrade if we want to continue using the
software from vendor xyz.

Rob Berendt
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




Konrad Underkofler <kdunderk@hoshizaki.com>
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09/09/2002 12:35 PM
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Rob,

Of course I have to jump in, "better" is a relative word.
If new releases were so wonderful people would upgrade like
crazy. I believe the operative word for an OS/400 release
might be "different" not quantifiably "better". Most of the
original testing of ILE concluded that performance was approximately
the same, so the big question is why upgrade? why use it?
Programming is getting more complicated not less and that
alone discourages usage of the new features. If you only have
one production machine with no inhouse resource to apply the
release why take the risk?

I do believe if you do use the Java stuff or have new peripherals
it does make sense to upgrade since it is either mandatory or
necessary from a performance / compatibility point of view.
But then if you do use Java you might also be considering other
platforms where Java is nore native or evolved as well.

:))

Konrad



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