If one is currently in such a situation, where they are just treading water
until a conversion is done, then their existing permanent license will be
sufficient. Granted, in the future this may be more difficult. It will
take more planning on the part of the project manager.
But the days of continuing to run on that Windows 3.1 box, or that IBM i
7.1 release, are behind us now. The security risks are too high.
Those of us anxious to get fully on to IBM i 7.6, but vendors are fighting
tooth and nail against putting some of that maintenance money into hardware
or software upgrades, are getting upset.
Energy prices? I would think that the newer models would consume less
energy.
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