On 28 Jun 2007 11:32:08 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >My 10 year old Multiprise 2003 model 106 is running OS/390 2.10 just >fine and I have yet to find any business justification for changing it. > >I have three customer running OS/390 1.3 on a 2003/103 and their only >concern is the political hyperventilation that occurs whenever IBM >announces another piece of hardware is going out of support.
For a number of reasons, they need to consider upgrading. If they are in the United States, do they have the security infrastructure to handle Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA and other legislative requirements? Are they really able to serve their customer needs? I came from a shop that used obsolete computers and for what we were doing at the time it worked. It may work for your customers but that is growing less and less likely. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Marchant [mailto:snip] >Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:48 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware > >Ten years? That's a long time. Ten years ago the G4 was announced. > >How many people have actually ever kept a mainframe for ten years, even >with upgrades? > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
