RE: Other vendors on IBM i 7.1

They have plenty of money. Their owner, however, could generate noise from
between his fingers if he were to pick up a nickel (if you know what I
mean). He just made one of my clients spend $1600 to buy Query, because his
support line people don't know SQL.

In fairness, however, his customers are not early adopters of computer
technology unless it is related to their production equipment.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Subject: RE: Other vendors on IBM i 7.1

Even if you were only kidding the vendor on 7.1 I'd get them started now
so they will be ready within a year after you need 7.1 desperately to
support new hardware or something.
Post the url I showed you below.
Show them that, based on history, there's likely to be a follow on to 7.1
around that time in 2012.
Suggest they also contact IBM about their vendor early ship program. If
they choose not to make the investment in enough hardware to support not
only the versions of OS they are supporting but also early ship, they
might be able to get in some program and access a cloud.


Rob Berendt