Re: IBM Rational Business Developer Extension (new EGL tooling)

Vern,

I did contact my BP!! He sent me the link I posted and asked "How many
licenses do you want?". From what I understand the RBDE is a new product
from IBM Rational and is not part of the WDSC product and is not being
bundled with the WDS LPP. Current System i license holders of WDSC V6 have
until July 30, 2007 to order a free license to this new RBDE product but
after that it will have to be purchased "per authorized user" through
Passport Advantage. The free license will include 1 year of maintenance but
after that maintenance will be billed for through Passport Advantage
separate from your normal SWMA. If my BP and I are wrong about RBDE, please
forward a link to any documentation you have that contradicts these
understandings.


Kind regards,

BJ



On 5/18/07, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You really need to go to your business partner - the one who sold you
the iSeries and the software on it. The Rational sites at IBM have
very little relationship to how we get the development products - the
price of RBDE there have nothing to do with us in the iSeries world -
everything we do is based on licensed products - nothing at Rational
is based on licensed products.

My errant speculation is, there will be a feature code for getting
this through our normal channels. And that you should not worry about
counts - it should be unlimited, the same way it is for WDSC, since
it is based on a WDSC license scenario.

So there - I've put in my own comments based on almost no knowledge -
call your BP!!! Your BP is your "Rational sales representative" for
all intents and purposes.

HTH
Vern