Re: IBM Rational Developer for System i V7.1 -- WDSCI-L

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Shannon ODonnell wrote:

It's like FORD selling you cars for years and years and then after you've
become dependent on them, they start charging separately for the use of the
steering wheel and seats.
"Well of course you CAN buy one of our cars with out a steering wheel or a
seat...but really...wouldn't you miss it now that you've gotten so used to
it? What's another few hundred dollars anyway?"

Actually, it's more like this: for a single flat price of $10,000, you've gotten a fully loaded Humvee amphibious hovercraft, and that was your only option. Everybody got the same Humvee, and the price hasn't gone up for years. Not only that, but a lot of shops were buying P30 and P40 machines for production (with ever-dwindling hardware margins), and then piling 50 developers into one P05 Humvee.

Now, IBM is going to allow you to customize your vehicle, and you'll be able to choose the components you really use. If you do indeed use everything, you will probably pay $20,000, but the average Joe will pay more like $7500. And you'll pay a little extra for every passenger.

Joe

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