Re: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

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Of course, not upgrading h/w or s/w is effectively not an active 
iSeries/i5 installation anyway.
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One of my major points...

I always gotta come back to the large standing ovation a major software 
vendor had at their user convention when they announced they were no 
longer supporting obsolete versions of operating systems.  Now all these 
people had "business" reasons for upgrades.

I don't expect my software vendors to release fixes for the latest 
depreciation schedules for tax reasons for version 1.0 of their software 
when they are on version 8.3.

I don't expect IBM to release a fix for V2R3 of i5/os for an "Integrity 
fix" discovered in V5R4 of i5/os.

Why should be expect software vendors to keep supporting their product on 
versions of OS no longer supported by IBM?  Isn't that really doing a 
disservice to them?

Rob Berendt