RE: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed

>From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@xxxxxxxx] 
>...by forcing the user into the upgrade cycle by 
>tying hardware and software upgrades,...

How does MS "force" the user to upgrade. In fact I'd argue that an iSeries
user is more forced to upgrade than an MS user. 

Given the size of the PC hardware market it would be easy (and cheap) for me
to buy the hardware I need to run DOS 6.22 today. Try to buy the hardware
needed to run V2R2. To run a production machine you need to be able to
support hardware failures. I can do that in a PC environment by buying new
hardware to run my OS at a cost effective price, how do I do that in an
iSeries environment?

-Walden

PS. Obviously, I can't use the new features w/o upgrading, but a user's
desire to use a new feature isn't MS "forcing" the user to upgrade, it's the
user opting to upgrade.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 11:08 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed


From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> However, I thought that one of the fundamental ideas of OS/400 was that
you
> could slip new hardware underneath the operating system without disturbing
> it.  I thought the horizontal and vertical microcode was supposed to allow
> exactly this sort of thing.  Haven't we had processor upgrades before that
> didn't require an upgrade to a new version of the operating system?
>
> Just wondering.  Because if you're saying each new version of hardware
> requires new software, then OS/400 has lost one of the major benefits that
I
> (evidently mistakenly) thought it had.
>

IBM has discovered that Microsoft makes money (and lots of it) by forcing
the user into the upgrade cycle by tying hardware and software upgrades,
so IBM wants to try that too.

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