Its interesting that for z/OS, you get a 3 year maintenance window but for my other favorite operating system, Ubuntu, the LTS version provides 3 years maintenance on the desktop and 5 years for the server version - for free. Of course, you can buy commercial support contracts cheap if need it.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> My desktop has been running Ubuntu for almost 4 years on the same hardware and the fantastic package / update management system, based on Debian/APT smoothly upgrades between versions and keeps track of all of the files not only in the OS but in my applications. It runs just as faster or faster than it ever did, I don't worry about viruses, and if I need to run a Windows app I can choose between Wine or running XP under VirtualBox. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Edward Jaffe<[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Kopischke wrote: >> >> Isn't there a future upgrade concern as well ??? I don't think you can >> upgrade from z/OS 1.7 to z/OS 1.10 or above and be supported by IBM. It >> might work, but more importantly, it might not... >> > > z/OS migration outside the 3-year window is a theme we will be discussing at > SHARE over the next few conferences. In Denver, in addition to our excellent > IBM presentations on supported migration paths, we will present: > > Session 2241 > Successful Unsupported z/OS Upgrade Paths for Trailing Edge Shops - User > Experience > Thursday, August 27th @ 1:30 pm. > Speaker: Tom Conley, Pinnacle Consulting > > Excellent location, excellent time, excellent speaker, excellent topic. Be > there! 8-) > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 > Los Angeles, CA 90045 > 310-338-0400 x318 > [email protected] > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
