Interesting, as I believe I tried your free version on our development box a few weeks ago... V5R3... It worked fine...
(Just so you know, we do not use it here... This was just a demo to show we could do this.....)
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:15 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: New redpaper: i5/OS Program Conversion:Getting readyfor
i5/OSV6R1- old versions
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Thank you too. I don't know how many times I asked this list if the
people supporting old releases are actually making NEW sales on releases
no longer supported by IBM and never heard a response.
Rob, I'd bet that the majority of people making sales to shops that are on
back releases are the smaller utility companies that are helping companies
band-aid their existing machines.
I tend to agree that if you're off of maintenance you're unlikely to want to
spend much on software.
Here's an interesting anecdotal piece of information: my original CPYSPLFPDF
program was written to be shareware. Use it, send me fifty bucks. I never
received a single shareware payment. I know people were using it, too,
because V5R2 broke the free version, and I started getting calls from people
(at which point I told them to upgrade to the commercial version <grin>).
That's just the way iSeries shops are. Even people who are on maintenance
don't understand the idea of shareware; people on back releases are even
less likely to want to spend money.
Joe
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