Re: RDi and Linux

David Gibbs wrote:

This is something that's confused me about the way IBM is packaging WDSC
/ RDi ... clearly the wave of the future is to web enable applications
and provide service oriented interfaces to applications (SOA, but in a
more generic sense). Why would they pull OUT some of the basic features
that encourage that direction and ADD features that discourage it?

Evidently some people complained that WDSC was too big and had too big a footprint, and they didn't want to pay for things like EGL because they didn't need them, so IBM came up with a tiered pricing system: $800 for green screen, $2000 for EGL, $4000 for full Java EE.

I guess it's better thatn having to pay $4000 per seat regardless of what you want to do.

Joe

Storage on disk is one thing ... memory foot print is another ... my
copy of WDSC 7 is currently running with 312mb of active memory and
another 286mb of swapped memory. It currently has the largest footprint on my system by a factor of 3 (excluding VMWare server).

I currently have the java, rse, and sep perspective's open.

Eh. That's PC software. Thunderbird on my machine is taking 400MB, Firefox is 100MB. Open Office is 130MB. RDi is only 188MB, so that puts it right at the same level as the others. My development machine has 3GB, so those numbers don't mean much.

Joe