Re: Power 8 EOS -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Power 8 EOS
From: Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:44:50 -0500
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With a Power 8, how do you support your 7.5 customers?
If the 3 year pattern keeps up I suspect IBM i rNext will be out early
2025. How would you support that?
If the upgrade pattern keeps up Power 9 isn't likely to support rNext.

I'm an early kind of guy. The fact that a vendor can support 7.2 is not a
good thing to me. I take that as a red flag that they're not likely to
support the versions that I run.
Who writes more checks? Customers who stay current with the OS, or those
whose OS is out of support?

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Re: Power 8 EOS , Brad Stone

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