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

My 2 cents:

a. make the current 5722 WDS the delivery package for compilers
   and WDSC. Put the screen design fuction into the base, not advanced.
b. move the old PDM along with DFU, etc, into a separate 5722-xxx
   call it "classic" or some other nonsense word
   Tier price based on server tiers - maybe $1k for very low end
c. Advanced Edition should still be for very advanced shops. If they can
   afford it - let em have it.

Everyone will have to buy "a" to get compilers.
If you want the existing older stuff - pay a thousand for "b" - server
(not per seat)

IBM still has it's revenue from WDS.
Gets millions for support PDM-.
Customers wanting old stuff pay "a little more".
We can all get back to development...
jim franz

To: "Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:14 PM

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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