RE: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

["Allen" <rallen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Our software is inexpensive utility software that works for
them. If we dropped support they would just plug along
without support. Their current release works just fine for
their small operation and have no current need to upgrade.

How many businesses gripe, complain, whine when Microsoft
keeps coming out with new releases costing business $$$.

If a company is running on V4R5 or earlier, they are for a
reason. Heck just imagine how many S36 or S38 or AS400 V3R2
or V3R7 machines are still being used.

We are a company that does not force our customers to
upgrade every time IBM comes out with a new release and many
customers purchase for that reason. We have a customer that
has been delaying upgrading because one vendor is going to
charge them over $10,000 just for the vendors upgrade fee.

We don't charge our customers when they upgrade their
Hardware or their OS. But most do and many times the vendor
fees are the reason companies balk at OS upgrades.

We shall continue to support several releases back and keep
our customer base happy, that's what it should be about.

Allen


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Michael Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:52 AM
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Subject: Re: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500

Or a reason to move to another platform. Of course, not
upgrading h/w or s/w
is effectively not an active iSeries/i5 installation anyway.

On 10/18/06, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you were nice and caring, you'd drop support for V4R5
so that they'd
> have a "business" excuse to use to management as a reason
to upgrade.
> How many payroll accounting packages out there are still
actively
> supported for MS-DOS 3.1?
>
> Rob Berendt
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> I have NO desire for another one of these, we only keep it
> around because we have a few customers (20) still on V4R5
> and being the nice and carrying software developers that
we
> are we continue to support them :)
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> Allen
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>    I've got a client wanting someone to take the whole
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>      To: <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>      From: "Allen" <rallen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>      Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>      Date: 10/17/2006 04:48PM
>      Subject: I need Feature Card 2617 for old Model 500
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>      Does anyone know where I can get Feature Card 2617
for
> an
>      Old Model 500?
>
>      Thanks
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>      Allen
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