Re: Staying current on releases? (was: Are there any System i sites on the Internet that offer accounts?)

There are other places than IBM, that provide support for IBM equipment and OS.

We use one with faster response time when we have a problem, and lower pricing.
Our AS/400 is in a rural area ... used to be if we called IBM one day, we could expect to get the CE 2 days later ... with the competition, we call late one nite, usually have service before noon next day.

If the company is able to get the job done on the old box, and does not need any of the latest features, then motivation is to keep the old box running to infinity. My Honda Civic was bought new in 1984. Why can't a computer have similar life span?

sooner or later... you'll need to be on a supported release of the OS 8^)

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



Nick_Radich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Re: Staying current on releases? (was: Are there any System i sites on
the Internet that offer accounts?)

That's why we are still at V4R5.

Thanx,

Nick



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Jeff Young <cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx>

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Re: Staying current on releases? (was: Are there any System i sites on

the Internet that offer accounts?)

For programmers, the new cool things are indeed a good reason to upgrade,
but for the C level people, if the current system is working without any
problems and the needs of the business do not require anything beyond what
the current system provides, there is no incentive to them to upgrade just
for its own sake.


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst
IBM -e(logo) server Certified Systems Exper - iSeries Technical Solutions
V5R2
IBM Certified Specialist- e(logo) server i5Series Technical Solutions
Designer V5R3
IBM Certified Specialist- e(logo)server i5Series Technical Solutions
Implementer V5R3

----- Original Message ----
From: Pete Massiello <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:57:31 AM
Subject: RE: Staying current on releases? (was: Are there any System i
sites on the Internet that offer accounts?)

Lukas,

I agree that most people are on either V5R3 or V5R4. I know almost
all my customers are on V5R4, and the ones that aren't at V5R4, is due to
unique reasons. For example there are other products they are running
that
are preventing them from going to V5R4.

Although, when I do find new customers, many times they are
contacting me to do a release upgrades for them. Just 2 weekends ago, we
upgraded someone from V5R1 to V5R3, and then to V5R4.

For some people, the only reason that they upgrade their OS, is due
to requirements by a new box which only supports a minimum release. With
V6R1, that will change. There are so many cool things inside this release,
people are going to want to go to this release.

JMHO
Pete Massiello

-----Original Message-----
From: Lukas Beeler
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Staying current on releases? (was: Are there any System i sites
on
the Internet that offer accounts?)

On Jan 22, 2008 2:39 PM, Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> accounts are on a V5R2 system, but that has worked well enough for me
> since I've been using it for writing articles and I don't want to
> accidentally use a feature that isn't available to most people. You can

Are there many people that run something below V5R3? V5R3 is currently
the lowest release supported.

Do you really think that the people running unsupported i5/OS versions
are the majority of System i users?

I know a few customers that are not current on their OS, but that has
usually political reasons. And they're very few.