Re: ILE Conversion

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am probably that person (of one of the people) who are still at V3R7M0 that
you heard about.

Now, please explain to my why my company should pay $40,000+ to upgrade
our OS when things are working fine and dandy as they are?  Yes, it would be
nice to be on the newest release of the operating system, but $40,000+ worth?
And with IBM's new policy of pre-paying, there is even more of a reason *NOT*
to upgrade.

Sooner or later, we will probably upgrade for some reason, we need to run some
program from some vendor who doesn't downward compile with all it's many
implications.  That move will cost us a tremendous amount of money.

So, what is the justification in spending $40,000+ (as the initial payment, not 
counting
IBM prepayments and forced OS maintainance fees) to say we are on V4Rx instead 
of
V3R7?

Regards,

Jim Langston

Richard Jackson wrote:

> <SNIP>
> I agree that customers should stay current on OS releases.  I think that
> they should be forced up.  I saw a note on the midrange list from someone
> who was at V3R7.  Compared to V4R3 or V4R4, V3R7 is a very bad place to be.
> I think that the right approach is to withdraw support for releases more
> than a certain number of years old or more than a certain number of releases
> back.  In my opinion and at this time, there is no justification for being
> on V4R1 or earlier.  I think that V4R2 is not nearly as good as V4R3.
> Software rot is bad for everyone.
>
> <SNIP>
> Richard Jackson
> mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
> www.richardjacksonltd.com
> Voice: 1 (303) 808-8058
> Fax:   1 (303) 663-4325

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