Re: What are the lowest release level you supports

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob

One aspect of the questions is support - vendors may decide to 
_support_, not necessarily expect to _sell_ to an older release.

OTOH, IBM likes your point, that telling customers that they are no 
longer supported on those earlier releases encourages moving forward. 
That was probably a big part of extending V5R4.

Cheers
Vern

On 5/3/2012 11:48 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Besides,
> 1 - Other than a customer issued edict like "print barcodes" so they
> purchase TL Ashford's package, do people on older releases actually
> purchase new software?  For example, when was the last time you made a new
> sale to someone running a version that was long out of support?
> 2 - Many existing customers want their vendors to come up with a policy of
> only supporting releases currently supported by IBM.  That would give them
> a 'business' reason to upgrade their OS and maybe even their hardware. For
> example, if a PC vendor announced they were going to stop supporting
> Windows 3.1 and you had to have XP, 2008 or 7 and it meant that the person
> could finally go to their manager and say "Hey Peachtree announced they
> were going to drop Windows 3.1 and the new tax laws are coming out and if
> we want support we have to upgrade our PC".  How many managers would
> really kick and scream and tell their accounting manager to shop for a new
> package that still runs on 3.1?
> 3 - Would you rather please the small market of people who still run
> obsolete hardware, or be able to take advantage of the larger pool of
> people who still occasionally write checks for IT department purchases?
>
> Rob Berendt