Re: V5R4 End of Marketing

Rather than let them leave the platform, why not move to Solarsoft or Harris Data's systems? Assuming they will find a better solution off platform is a bit fatalist. There are plenty of reasonably prices software products on IBM i that can replace BPCS.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 5/27/2011 12:00 PM, Paul Nelson wrote:

I talked to a fellow in the Chicago area yesterday. His company is using
BPCS, and like many other firms, is heavily modified, and because of the
outrageous pricing on maintenance, chose to drop the maintenance.

They are currently negotiating with Infor to get what the pieces of the
security component (non observable) they need to upgrade to V6R1. Infor
started with a price of 3.5 million, and has come down to 1.5, and then has
dug in its heels at $300K.

His alternative is to pay for maintenance on V5R4 at the rate of about $50K
per year while they find a solution to take them off the platform.

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


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Carey
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 11:43 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: V5R4 End of Marketing

I have no special knowledge, but I'd bet in the fall IBM announces end
of support of V5R4 for fall 2012.

I get the feeling IBM is weighing the decision based on the number of
users who could not move to V6R1, which seemed to usually be due to
vendor software issues.

I think the best thing they could do is to announce end of support and
get the last stragglers moving.

Jeff Carey, MSIT, MBA
Senior Technical Support Specialist

SXC Health Solutions, Inc.


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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 10:53 AM
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http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS210-440/ENUS210-440.PD
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Rob Berendt
-- Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 05/27/2011 11:27 AM Subject: Re: V5R4 End of Marketing Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx Pete do you have a link to the announcement? Charles On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Pete Massiello <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> IBM i V5R4 has been withdrawn from marketing.
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> As of today 27th of May 2011, IBM i V5R4 has been withdrawn from

marketing

> and will not be available for Upgrades on the website.
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> However software downloads are still available:
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> - Under Software Downloads: If the machines entitlements are at V5R4

as
the

> highest version release, software products are available under

"withdrawn

> products" - In step 2 : select product, check for product availability

and

> select "withdrawn products"
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> - IBM i/OS V5R4 is still available under "IBM i evaluation, T&B and

NLV

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> If you have any questions or concerns you may contact Customer

Support.

> Contact information can be found on the web page via the link

'Contacts'."

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