RE: V5R4 End of Marketing

I see your point. EOS might be what some companies need. Hopefully not
to jump platforms though!

Well, IBM generally announces in spring or fall. The have let known
they will announce any OS end of service at least 12 months out. End of
service always follows end of marketing - but by how much, only IBM
decides.

I really would be surprised if the announcement isn't in the fall for
end of service in fall, 2012.

If I'm wrong, well, I'll just declare that fall 2012 is the "spiritual"
end of service and the "real" one is still a few months off...


Jeff Carey, MSIT, MBA
Senior Technical Support Specialist

SXC Health Solutions, Inc.



jeffrey.carey@xxxxxxx


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Subject: RE: V5R4 End of Marketing

I agree that announcing end of support would help.

I'll repeat it again. Years ago a major vendor announced at one of
their
user conferences that they would no longer support versions of the OS
not
supported by IBM. Expecting a lot of fallout they were pleasantly
surprised when many in the room started cheering. Gave many of them a
business reason to go to management and get them to upgrade their OS.

There are many packages it just doesn't make sense to drop maintenance
on.
We drew the line in IT and refused to modify any of the fixed asset
programs dealing with depreciation schedules. The government is always
changing the rules there and we were constantly putting on updates from
the vendor.


Rob Berendt