On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:49 AM, retired mainframer < retired-mainfra...@q.com> wrote:
> It must be nice to be able to tell a customer you don't need their > business. > > ROI - It depends on how much the customer is willing to pay you to keep from paying IBM for the upgrade. If they have a system which "just works" for them, and they have no strategic direction for the "mainframe", then perhaps paying to maintain the old software is worth it to them. However, I am confused as to why they would want to invest in a new machine but not invest in new OS software, but Mark said "just don't go there"; so I won't. Perhaps, as I recall from many years ago about a DOS shop (sysprog basically rewrote 80% of it), they have so modified OS/390 2.6 that it is no longer recognizable as OS/390. -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
