Re: George Farr declares feature specific pricing on horizon for WDSC

I doubt if you would be able to shut the barn door with all the horses
moving to other platforms.

On 3/26/07, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Exactly.  Imagine the sea change in attitude if WDSC was bundled and PDM
cost $11/seat with a promise that it would be over $150/seat by 2012 and
  $500/seat by 2020.





Wilt, Charles wrote:
> Booth,
>
> I was thinking this myself.
>
> Keep including WDSC, and charge extra for SEU/PDM/SDA.
>
> If nobody pays to use it, then you should be able to drop maintenance of it 
altogether and put the
> monies into WDSC.
>
> It seems to me that IBM should be trying to find reason for people to use 
WDSC, not find ways to get
> them to stick with SEU/PDM/SDA.
>
> Realistic?  Probably not.  (So nobody needs to tell me it will never happen 
;-)
>
> But from experience, trying to get the ok to use WDSC in a large shop, my 
best argument has been that
> we already have a license for the tool and don't have to pay anything extra.
>
> Charles
>

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