Re: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

<<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?>>

In a nutshell, YES! This market would be a whole lot better off if the 
ISV's were agents for change in this area. They should be able to "pull" 
their customers up the ladder with them. All they have to do is be smart 
enough to publish "end of life" schedules the way IBM does. They also need 
to be introducing features to their software that will incent the 
customers to continue paying for maintenance. I know of one SSA product 
that died on the vine because nobody paid attention to it. I will be 
spending time today working on converting that module's files to a Wintel 
based product that is a POS, but management listened to the Windows geeks. 
It also hurt that SSA wanted to charge 6 figures for changing the 
licensing on a product that hasn't been enhanced in 5 years.


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978  Cell
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<snip>
Of course, not upgrading h/w or s/w is effectively not an active 
iSeries/i5 installation anyway.
</snip>
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