On 11/09/08 06:41, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:23:10 -0600 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: Hello Ron,An important reason, though, why many mainframe shops upgrade is that the cost of maintenance contracts skyrocket after 4ish years,Surely, in part at least, that's rocketing price is to coerce the customer into upgrading to newer hardware. IOW, the maintenance cost increase is artificial.
Nowadays, probably. Back in the day (10-15-20 years ago), vendors kept large stocks of old parts, and FEs could actually repair this stuff.
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