Hi Aaron
I agree with Eric - it's an excuse to justify a poor decision. Usually a
decision to save money.
Like it or not, things do go wrong. Once you stop upgrading to stay on
supported releases you have assumed the risk of ensuring business
continuity.
Regards
Evan Harris
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Abreu
Sent: Friday, 3 October 2008 4:40 a.m.
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Another iSeries bites the dust
Eric,
no one's questioning "forward progress" when 'needed'
this all stems from customers running hardw/softw until their
not supported due to abandonment/obsolescence by the vendors that created
them.
If you have someone in your staff that can service it and keep it
going.. then why not stick with that...
If it does the job, and you get the results needed to run your business,
ie.. "if it ain't broke"
then my issue is.. why upgrade just for the sake of upgrading ?
ie.. "don't fix it"
tt.t.thatss.s..s myy.y sttory and I'm st.st.st.sttickking to it!!!! :)
"DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 10/2/2008 10:18 AM >>>
Hi Aaron,
<you said>
theres nothing stupid about:
"if it ain't broke...don't fix it"
I humbly disagree..... In my experience, that phrase is used almost
exclusively to STOP FORWARD PROGRESS.
I think I'll leave it at that...
Eric DeLong
midrange.com
