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  3. March 2008

Re: WDSC changing to RDi

Mike Cunningham wrote:
Well, since you asked. IBM is not blameless in getting customers into this situation so they should do something. Maybe just give people the option of paying under a subscription model instead of a purchase model. If purchase is $4,000+ and $400 a year maintenance let me subscribe and pay $800 a year which includes maintenance, and if I stop paying I stop having the right to use it. And do what Novell use to do and put the $400 a year subscription into a buy-out plan so at some point in the future (10 years) I get a license like I purchased it and drop to $400 a year maintenance.

Last reply for me on this, since it's between you and IBM: put aside the $800 a year that you WON"T have to pay for WDSC, since IBM is giving it to you for free, and then the tool will only be $2400 (less whatever discount IBM will be willing to give you).

If the issue is the one-time cost of $4000 per seat, then use MyEclipse.

Joe

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