Re: WDSC Futures

Nice of IBM to decide this right as Vista becomes available, don't you

think?

This specific point/scenario is really what makes it feel like a bait and
switch to me.  I am still scratching my head at the whole ordeal.  George
made is sound like this AE stuff was only going to be for a time, but then
why did marketing do it in the first place?  Really makes a person not want
to adopt anything more than the most basic features in WDSC, knowing that
most likely those will always be no additional charge; but the more advanced
features carry a potential burden of many $K's in the future.

Here is a story on it for anybody that hasn't read it yet:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh032607-story01.html


Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bruce Guetzkow
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:41 AM
To: WDSci-L Posting
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSC Futures

Tom:

<snip>
Just to see what we're talking about here, does anybody have a guess when a
"future Windows OS" might show up?
</snip>

Yes...now...it's called Vista.  CODE won't be ported to Vista, so if you buy
a new computer and it has Vista on it, or if you decide to upgrade, you
won't be able to use CODE.  That means the only "graphical" editors
available to you on Vista will be SDA and (ugh) RLU.

Nice of IBM to decide this right as Vista becomes available, don't you
think?

--Bruce Guetzkow


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