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>> who suffers? The small IT shop who runs a small AS/400, probably a bought-in application, and who want to 'develop' small CL programs to help automate their system. The last numbers I saw from IBM would appear to indicate that this customer is almost mythical. The RPG compiler alone ships on about 70% of all boxes shipped. Your "customer" exists within the remaining 30% along with all the systems that are shipped as pure production boxes, and all those folks who could care less about writing CL. That is not a big market. So - they give it away free. How many companies would stay on the iSeries as a result? Which brings us to the issue which you didn't address. How many companies will now _keep_ their iSeries because with the tools available for "free" their programmers have been able to demonstrate some of the stuff they could be doing? I've met several in this position and would hazard a bet that the number is at least an order of magnitude bigger than the number "saved" by a free SEU! Separating SEU/PDM (because no matter what you say someone would soon be whining that they should have PDM as well) from the rest of the tools is not a zero cost item. And separation is the only way to go, since attempts to ship the same product under different product codes are doomed to failure (or at least massive PTF problems cased on past experience). Jon Paris Partner400
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