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Unlock IT Budget Potential for IBM and HC

Name: Unlock IT Budget Potential for IBM and HC
Uploaded: 2024-09-03T18:15:02+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A short YouTube presentation (creator: Mike Austin) about unlocking IT budget potential, highlighting vendor behavior that accelerates upgrade cycles to…

3 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube presentation (creator: Mike Austin) about unlocking IT budget potential, highlighting vendor behavior that accelerates upgrade cycles to force customers to move to newer versions. The speaker cites IBM as an example: IBM formerly supported multiple DB2 versions but has narrowed support to a single current version, pressuring faster upgrades.

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So the challenges that you're facing is you're seeing a lot of vendors, and I'll speak specifically about IBM and a couple of these instances, but you're seeing vendors force upgrades sooner in the cycle. And really they're doing that by, you know, saying you gotta, you gotta upgrade. To get our support, we're ending the versions on these support. As an example, you know, six years ago, IBM support supported three different versions of DB2. Today they only support one.