Re: Power 8 EOS

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Virtual loaners.  I use them to test (and already have) our offerings on
V7R5.

And to be honest, not many are on the bleeding edge like you are.  I would
bet I have more customers on V7R1 or 2 than V7R5.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 9:45 AM Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> With a Power 8, how do you support your 7.5 customers?
> If the 3 year pattern keeps up I suspect IBM i rNext will be out early
> 2025.  How would you support that?
> If the upgrade pattern keeps up Power 9 isn't likely to support rNext.
>
> I'm an early kind of guy.  The fact that a vendor can support 7.2 is not a
> good thing to me.  I take that as a red flag that they're not likely to
> support the versions that I run.
> Who writes more checks?  Customers who stay current with the OS, or those
> whose OS is out of support?
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