Re: Open letter to vendors of IBM i software

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you contact the vendors specifically that have this issue, or are you
hoping they'll see it here?

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> We do not pay maintenance money solely to fund your next merger and
> acquisition.
> Along with new features and compliance with security and regulation we also
> expect more.
> We expect that you participate in IBM's early programs and get ready for
> the next release of IBM i.
> We expect that you know that IBM updates IBM i every 3 years and that makes
> it almost guaranteed that the next release will be out 2Q 2025.
> We expect you to be ready on date of G/A.
> We expect that you contact IBM and ask how to get involved with IBM i Early
> Programs.
> We expect that you know that IBM has announced some of the upcoming changes
> at sites like https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/668193
> We expect that you either have appropriate hardware to run any future
> release or are willing to find a cloud account to test on.
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/687283
>
> IBM has given fair warning of upcoming stuff at sites like the above and
> sites like https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/668157  and the updated
> IBM i Roadmap at https://www.ibm.com/products/ibm-i
>
> I have switched vendorS, plural, because of their dragging feet on new
> releases.
> So when I run WRKJVMJOB and find that you are using a version of Java which
> I likely won't be able to use in just a few months I'm not happy.  Or, if
> you list as a software requirement anything else listed on the stuff going
> away after the current version of the OS, I'm not happy.
>
> The fact that you may support some ancient version of IBM i means nothing
> to me.  Who spends more on product?  Those who won't spend money on new
> hardware or operating systems, or, those who do?
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