Re: Ownership won't agree to an upgrade

Depending on your management's reasoning, leasing is also an option to
categorize the cost differently, and not have to hassle with selling at
end of life. Sometimes you can reduce yearly maintenance by getting a
smaller but more powerful machine, but some vendors are getting wise to
that.



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Darren Strong
Dekko





From: Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/06/2017 06:24 PM
Subject: Ownership won't agree to an upgrade
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



So just had a long meeting with my boss, the owner, about what to do about
our System i 520 running 7.1. The machine was bought in 2006. It cannot
be upgraded past 7.1, which we all know will be dropped from support as of
April 2018. The hardware will be dropped in Jan 2019.

I provided several scenarios, but my final recommendation was to go with a
hosted IBM i provider. But, that brings up other costs, specifically
license transfer fees of current software. And the boss doesn't want to
spend any money.

He has asked me to research 3rd party support to see if we can utilize
that beyond April 2018 so we can just keep the machine we currently have.

Does anyone know of any 3rd party support providers for IBM i?

What about a good used hardware vendor? Maybe I can convince him to
upgrade to last year's model.

Or a good recruiter?

Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk