On Oct 17, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Staller, Allan wrote:
Time for a new vendor! Their price may comde down rather quickly after
that!
<snip>
Nope. The vendor has specifically stated that the release that we have
only supports the R4 format of the checkpoint.
And I've validated that by looking at their "interface" and
changing it
to use the z2 format variables. It just doesn't work. They do have a
newer version, for more money.
</snip>
I would have to agree with you on that. BUT anybody who would buy a
product that is release dependent should have made sure that any
upgrade is either reasonably priced (you pick your number) or free.
When I was evaluating products a while back I always put a "NO" stamp
on any release dependent product. I never had one get by me as I made
sure management was aware of this and the auditors as well.
While 20/20 hindsight is good it (to me) just makes plain sense never
agree to buy any product like this. At one place I worked one of the
vendors did not charge for such upgrade BUT they used every advanced
facility that was available to JES. Subsequently we had to keep JES2
at an extremely current maintenance level. Frankly it was too
bleeding edge for me. I spent more time keep JES current than I
should have. While I semi liked the vendor it was a lot of extra work
on my behalf. I was not lazy just trying to keep up with JES2
maintenance is almost a fulltime job.
Ed
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