RE: [RPGIV] Survey question - reality check

[Konrad Underkofler <kdunderk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

> And one software developer asked at his conference if the users would have
> a problem if they stopped supporting releases earlier than XYZ.  The users
> cheered and applauded.  Now they had justification to management to
upgrade
> their 400's.  Surprised the developer to no end.

Back to the practical world, although I would love to have a new machine
IBM's desire to make the 400 a Java wonderland (green screen penalty!),
quick drop of support for old releases (no need for software support
either),
inability of existing machine to handle new releases (no need for
software subscription either) and a greedy ERP vendor that considers any
upgrade a chance to grind out lots of additional revenue justification is
a very long, very expensive road...

So I hereby declare my love for support of old releases of everything and
await the time that "everyone" agrees there are enough features and function
in a new system to justify the cost. To be honest my current 620 is an
awful lot alike the System 38 Model 3 I got back in 1980! If we need state
of
the art we will convert those functions to NT / Win2K / Java / Unix etc and
gather the benefit of the rich toolsets and choice that those platforms
offer.

Konrad