Re: Another Company INVESTS in their AS/400 / iSeries

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Upgrades are great, but does anyone have any information about new
installs or competitive replacements? When we see an iSeries replaced,
that's a new (read lifeblood) sale for some other company. Upgrades
make IBM money, and make BPs money, and that's all good. But I don't
know how much upgrades really help the long term viability of the
platform.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Pete Massiello
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You know I always hear about the negative, which is something that I don't
> like.  Now, I have done a few dozen of these this year, and never wrote
> something up.  So, I thought it was time.  Now I am not proposing that we
> all do this on every new or upgraded machine, but it's interesting how we
> are so quick to point out the negative of someone getting off the box, why
> is it that we don't talk about people staying on their machines.
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> A customer of mine down on Long Island who is so satisfied the way that
> their AS/400 has been running the business has decided to upgrade to a new
> i5 520.  They understand the cost of ownership, they have lived through the
> machine providing them constant up-time, in the 5 years they never had to do
> a CTL-ATL-DEL sequence to fix a problem.  They are a growing business that
> has relied on their iSeries to grow with them and support their business.
> As additional workload was put on, the machine was able to handle it.  Now,
> as we move to a newer faster, less expensive machine, we expect that this
> machine will last them another 5 years.
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> Pete
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> Pete Massiello
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> iTech Solutions
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> http://www.itechsol.com
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