RE: New redpaper: i5/OS Program Conversion: Getting readyfor i5/OSV6R1

Aaron,

Have you considered simply making available an older version of your software for those older
releases?

I'm sure there'd be differences in functionality, but if a customer is willing to accept the
difference in OS functionality, why should they expect the available software to be up to date?

If I was running Win95, I don't expect to be able run WinXP applications.

Charles

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Subject: RE: New redpaper: i5/OS Program Conversion: Getting
readyfor i5/OSV6R1

One of the larger problems here is that ISVs still support outdated

releases. If ISVs would act reasonably and stop supporting
older versions of the software running on unsupported
operating systems, less problems would be had.

Lukas, with all due respect (which I respect you a lot),
until you sell custom software on the i5 I don't think you
can truly know how beneficial (in money and number of
customers) compiling to previous releases is. As I
understand it you get paid to put in brand new boxes so your
stance makes complete sense and I would suspect that many
ISV's would love to have their customers on the latest
release - but that just isn't the case.

This is exactly how it works on other platforms - and those

don't have

8

year old servers running critical business infrastructure.
There weren't a lot of Wintel servers in the past that could
run critical business infrastructure applications. Microsoft
is just getting into the "Enterprise Server" space in the
past 5 years or so. I don't think it is correct to make the
comparison you did because it doesn't realize the players and
how long they have been around and how refined the
OS/Hardware is. If Microsoft had been writing Enterprise
Servers in the 70's on their own hardware then I would guess
we would be seeing A LOT of Microsoft servers still running
Windows95 - but that just isn't the case.

Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:04 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: New redpaper: i5/OS Program Conversion: Getting readyfor
i5/OSV6R1

Business Applications and Infrastructure are equally important.

Neither works without the other. A company without working
Active Directory means that almost nothing will work. Same
probably if the ERP system is down.

People still running Windows 2000 are stupid (or have an
extended Hotfix Agreement). But at least Microsoft is still
providing Security updates for Windows 2000 - not so for
older OS/400 releases.

Running a release that is no longer supported is grossly negligent.

One of the larger problems here is that ISVs still support
outdated releases. If ISVs would act reasonably and stop
supporting older versions of the software running on
unsupported operating systems, less problems would be had. Of
course there's always the exception if you pay big money for
extended maintenance contracts.

This is exactly how it works on other platforms - and those
don't have 8 year old servers running critical business
infrastructure.

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