Re: Systems with missing source code

[Keith Carpenter <entropypool@xxxxxxxxx>]

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Keith
>
> This is NOT a boon for software providers. As a developer at one who has been the one doing the validation, it does not help us at all. Your comment seems to contain a bit of cynicism about how vendors treat customers - hope I'm not reading something in that is not there. Certainly there seem to be some that leverage this kind of thing in a way that hurts customers. I sincerely believe that we do not do that.
>
> And having 25-30 products to validate is not my idea of a good time! You can see a link to our V6R1 preparedness page on the midrange wiki.

Vern,

You have my sympathies.  Validation (proper) is no fun.  For us at 
least, it's a ridiculous level of documentation.  But it has to be done 
whenever the hardware or software is changed.

Rob is correct that vendors will see a pickup in support contract 
renewals in order for customers to be able to migrate to V6.  Vendors 
will also pickup new sales to those who now need another solution to 
something that can't migrate (this thread).

That many shops have dropped support says more to me about the state of 
"i" in general (declining) than anything about a particular vendor.


Keith