Ahhh.. that is an interesting observation. We only briefly ran one BC class machine as a penalty box, so I haven't really tracked that line. That certainly doesn't make life any easier for the smaller customers.
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:12:37 -0700, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: >On 10/9/2013 3:47 AM, Scott Chapman wrote: >> Who can say what IBM's unannounced plans are? However, I think if you go >> back and look at the status of the prior machines you'll find that >> withdrawing MES upgrades happens around 5 years after introduction. > >Such estimates are not valid for BC machines since they are released >long after their EC counterparts but are withdrawn at the same time. > >The last time I looked at this was for z10 BC. The machine came out 4Q08 >and MES upgrades for all z10s were withdrawn 3 1/2 years later at the >end of 2Q12. > >If that pattern continues, I would expect to see MES upgrades for z12s >withdrawn at the end of 2Q17. > >-- >Edward E Jaffe >Phoenix Software International, Inc >831 Parkview Drive North >El Segundo, CA 90245 >http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
