RE: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

["Allen" <rallen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob, 

You make some valid points but apply that same thought
process to the auto industry.
Wouldn't you be complaining if auto companies stopped
support (maintaining) any car more then 3 years old?

It would give you a good reason to purchase a new car, but I
am sure many people would be saying my car works just fine
for it's intended purpose I just need maintenance (support)
from time to time which are much cheaper then trading up for
the new models that do the same basic task of getting me
from point A to point B. 

I am not talking about adding new features to old cars I am
talking about support (maintaining).

Allen


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Subject: Re: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

<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