Re: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul

Because they wanted to move people to Domino so they could make more
money.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:25:23 -0400, "Pat Barber"
<mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> This whole OV/400 thing just makes me crazy. First
> they make HUGE announcements that it's gonna die,
> and it doesn't die, then they announce even more
> stuff and it doesn't die, and now here we are four
> or five years later, and it still works.
> 
> I don't think I will ever understand why they didn't
> simply leave wrkdoc and prtdoc alone. This was done
> with other older software such as BGU, which works
> just fine to this very day.
> 
> Pete Helgren wrote:
> 
> > Pat,
> > 
> > We took the existing 720 to V5R3M0 and then did a Save option 21 and a
> > restore to both i5/OS partitions (well, it was a little more complex but
> > basically that was it).  It works fine.  They primarily use it for mail
> > merges to create mailing labels and letters.  Don't think anyone uses it for
> > daily letter writing  :)
> 
> 
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