Re: IBM Tweaks i Development Tool Bundle

David FOXWELL wrote:

This has never been something I've had to worry about before. Excuse my ignorance, please, but was IS actually price per seat? By "alternative to $795 a seat for ADTS" are you saying that if one wants PDM AND RDi it counts as two "Seats"?

That's correct. Rather than just give you everything, IBM wants you to pay for what you use. IBM would also like you to move off of ADTS entirely.

I'm afraid that we might have to choose between SEU/PDM and Rdi in the future and I think that if that't the case then the former will win because the few who've tried WDSc 5 and 6 really don't have any more time to waste.

Some people may never like a PC-based IDE. If you can't afford a gigabyte of RAM or a 7200 RPM disk drive, or if you expect instantaneous response for every keystroke, then you will never like any desktop tools. Here's a test: try using Visual Studio. If you're happy with that, I don't know why you wouldn't be happy with RDi. On the other hand, if you hate Visual Studio, then you will probably always use ADTS.

But if you stick with ADTS, you will get no new features or enhancements. No outline, no extended search, no code completion, no verify, and so on. Not to mention no integration with the coming tools like RTC.

But that's why the seat based pricing - not everyone has to use RDi, just like not everyone has to use ADTS. It's a person-by-person choice.

Joe