RE: I/O features not planned to be supported beyond V5R3

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> How about
> our three year software maintenance agreement?  That's useless too if we
> can't upgrade to the next release.

Scott,

Perhaps this is your trump card?  I wonder what the lawyers could do with
this.

Not that I'm a fan of lawyers in general, mind you.  <g>

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Ingvaldson, Scott
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:17 PM
>
> Fortunately the controllers are 2782's and 2757's.  I understand that all
> things reach their EOS.  But replacing a tape drive or modem is one thing,
> replacing all of your DASD is another thing entirely.  I'd be a lot more
> understanding if this was a 170 or a 720, but it's a one-year-old 810.
>
> As far as speculation goes, I fully expect OS/400(i5 O/S) and iSeries to
> begin releasing hardware and software concurrently with AIX and
> pSeries.  I
> never expected this to make our one year old hardware useless.  How about
> our three year software maintenance agreement?  That's useless too if we
> can't upgrade to the next release.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Ingvaldson