RE: Next Version of JDE World requires i 7.1

["Lindstrom, Scott R." <slindstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This will definitely push some customers to the 3rd party maintenance vendors.

Not all of us techies are in control of the direction our companies take in regard to OS upgrades.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Jones
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:10 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Next Version of JDE World requires i 7.1

There are two sides to every coin.  For companies who have no need or
budget to upgrade their hardware, Oracle is effectively killing off app
upgrades for those running on pre-Power5 hardware.  I wonder how many of
them will stop paying Oracle maintenance fees.


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:57 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some other vendor years ago announced they were going to stay more current
> at their national user meeting.  The audience stood and cheered.  They now
> had a 'business' reason to get their management to upgrade.  The vendor
> was shocked.  They expected much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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> From:   Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   04/24/2012 10:29 AM
> Subject:        Next Version of JDE World requires i 7.1
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> It's nice to see a vendor moving you forward...instead of holding you
> back...even if it is Oracle...
> http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs042412-story02.html
>
> "Schiff highlighted three major enhancement areas with World A9.3. For
> starters, the new application requires IBM i 7.1. Going forward, World
> will not run on anything older than what is now the current release of
> the IBM i OS."
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