Re: List prices of yearly maintenance available?

IBM always jumps up maintenance on machines that they feel they have had
recent suitable replacements for. It's a marketing scheme - "See, if you
buy this new machine your maintenance goes way down." Third party
suppliers of maintenance always take IBM's price and take a certain
discount - "We save you x% of IBM's price - forget that we are using the
IBM gouge also".

IBM has a planning web site available to the public. In it they state
that V5R4 will be the last release to run on the 270.

With that, combined with the maintenance increase, maybe it is time to
replace your 270's? We will be retiring a couple. We already have one
that we migrated the application to an lpar on a 520. We may reconnect it
for another special purpose. However, not being able to put the latest
and greatest OS on within 4 months of GA would be particularly galling to
me. (Someone has to bleed to blaze a trail for the rest.) Hopefully by
then we'll figure out what to do with that.

Rob Berendt