RE: iSeries Upgrades ?? -- MIDRANGE-L

730/2067-1509 here and we're in the same boat.  Webfacing or something
similar to ditch 5250 is not an option so we are basically stuck with an
Enterprise 825-0873 as our only feasable upgrade.  But with our budget
and the upgrade costing over $400K (list) pre-discount it just isn't
going to happen this year.  So we'll ride the chassis for as long as we
can and then upgrade.  Yeah, I know we're losing our trade-in/MES
'credit', but there's nothing I can do about it.  I made my case but the
finance guys still said no.

I'm sure you need the interactive you've already got, but do you need
faster batch?  We're growing so we do, but if you don't, it may make
better financial sense to just stick with the 730 for a couple of years
and then buy whatever's new when you actually need an upgrade.  Or
consider a loaded 810-0869 instead of an 825.  No growth but if you
don't need it, it is significantly cheaper than the 825.

- John

-----Original Message-----
From: fergal.o'flynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:fergal.o'flynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:25 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: iSeries Upgrades ??


October 8th is the date IBM have set for upgrading iSeries machines.

I'm really struggling here to figure out where we should go.

We have a model 730 CPU 2067 interactive feature 1510. We have an
application with up to 500 users using a green screen, being supported
by an IT department using RPG and CL and Operators who manage the
system.

I see that we have three upgrade paths availble to Enterprise edition
iSeries, but my boss is wondering if we can buy a Standard edition
because they are so much cheaper and from there on use WDSc for
developers and Ops navigator for Operations, and webfacing the
application.

Is anyone else thinking like this ? What upgarde paths are you taking ?

I have seen very little mention of people going in the Standard edition
direction ??   Why not ?

What sort of companies will buy a standard edition and what will they
use it for ?

I feel that I'm really missing something here and there is should be
very easy to decide which iSeries to move to.
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