Re: Office Vision and V5Rx

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I suppose that if you compare the price of an upgrade versus a totally new 
iSeries when/if you do have to upgrade that may reduce your costs 
somewhat.

Granted, it's small potatoes, but I seem to remember replacing a dozen or 
so 3196's just because the switches kept breaking.  So I question the zero 
support costs of a dumb terminal.

And while the problem may be wiring (you can do bad lan just as easy as 
you can do bad balun twinax), but there was always that support.

So, all 100 of those users are cranking out OV/400?  And none of those 100 
has any use for a PC for external communications even?  Wow.  I see you 
guys have your own email domain - cvwd.org.  All of their email is 5250 
based?

Granted ov/400 has some nice mail/merge, but you didn't allude to that 
being your concern.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Lance Gillespie" <lgillespie@xxxxxxxx>
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>I wonder why people stay on V4R5.  Is it because of:
>1)  Can compile back to V3R2 and support older machines.
>2)  OV/400
>3)  What they have "supposedly" works.
>4)  Not on Software Subscription - cost
>5)  Hardware

2. OV/400

Can't afford to replace 100 $200.00 terminals that are all
paid for and have zero support cost with 100 $2,000.00
PC's and one full-time support person and on-going
costs of $500.00/year forever just to get free format
calcs.


Lance Gillespie
Coachella Valley Water District
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