Part of the problem is that like many others out there, we are "getting off the mainframe" (and have been for almost 5 years now) and finally pulled the first piece of code off it. Management doesn't want to spend the money on something that's "going away".
The other thing is that we make *extensive* use of the snapshot capabilities and I haven't seen much in the way of other software giving me the capabilities I have with it. Where else can I have 700 volumes of 3390 disk physically sitting on about 200 GB physical and be able to rebuild a test system in about 15 minutes start to finish? Pommier, Rex R. wrote: > If it's no longer supported does that mean I can quit paying for it? Well, in this case OTC (One Time Charge, typical to "open systems") sounds much more reasonable than MLC (monthly LC). It could be even fair to stop receiving fee from *existing* customers. > They still support the hardware, though. What sense does it make to > support the hardware but not the software that makes it usable? It doesn't make any sense. BTW: What sense does it make to use 6+ year old hardware with capacity comparable to single PC disk ? OK, some smaller (and poor) shops see the sense. In this case I would recommend other vendors storage (second hand). Really cheap, faster, more capacity. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
