On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:30:36 -0400, Pinnacle wrote: >IBM would help tremendously if it did not obsolete its mainframes every 5 >years. In my client's case, they bought their 9672 in 1997, and it was >effectively dead-ended in 2001 when they installed OS/390 V2R10. IBM just >withdrew the z890, and we're due for the next levelset to take out the z800 >and z900 series. Companies who used to get 10 years out of a mainframe can >do so no longer because IBM won't permit it. >
I think part of this is just bad timing. If you were on an older 9672, you had to upgrade to a z/architecture machine because OS's became unsupported. Once on a z machine, you're set for a while. I don't believe the z890 is being dropped from support, just marketing. And I think the 800/900 series and the 990 have already been withdrawn. Isn't the 890 the last ??? In our case, we migrated from an older 9672 to a z800 because we couldn't go z/arch on the 9672 and our policy is to run only supported OS's. So we had to upgrade. Then we ran out of capacity on our z800 and came to a point where we needed to add capacity. We originally bought the frame intending on expanding capacity in the future. But when we priced a capacity upgrade, we found it was cheaper to go z9 instead of upgrade. If you want to buy enough capacity to last 10 years (I think z/arch will be around that long), you can probably keep your machine that long. But do you really want to pay for that capacity in anticipation of needing it ??? And when IBM makes you a deal you can't refuse, why pass it up just because of emotional attachment ???? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
