Re: EGL vs. Java

Susan,

Thanks for the correction.

Looking at another announcement letter released today,
http://tinyurl.com/yodead, it appears your belief is correct and that
Passport Advantage will not be involved. I had seen another announcement
letter yesterday and the maintenance was provided under Passport Advantage.
Given the hoops I've been through with RBDe and Passport Advantage, I'm glad
PA can be avoided.

Regards,

BJ


On 1/30/08, Susan Gantner <Susan.Gantner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brian, Joe, et al,

I'm no good at interpreting announcement letters. But I was also at "the
meeting" and I believe that both RDi and RDi SOA can be purchased either
via
Passport Advantage OR via your i5/OS LPPs. I see 2 product numbers for
each
of them: one as an LPP and one as a Passport Advantage product.

I don't know whether how your purchase it impacts SWMA because there are
SWMA charges on host-based LPPs as well as Passport Advantage products.
Regardless of how your purchase them, they are user priced, so I believe
the
SWMA would be per seat in either case and as far as I know, it will be the
same price - as you say probably around 20%.

I don't think pricing for RDi SOA has been announced yet. It was hinted
that
the pricing for RDi SOA is probably about a month away. RDi SOA includes
RDi
plus some web tooling (e.g., web services program call wizards) and does
bundle RBD.

Pricing for RDi is announced and in the US is $795 per seat. The green
screen ADTS tools are also priced at $795 per seat. If you a developer
needs
both, you can do the math.

Susan Gantner