Re: Switching to RDI from SEU

It would be interesting to hear from a bigger shop that is contemplating the move to new hardware and software. My pricing was based on a config that may not be "real world" enough but if you had 20 developers and the ticket, just for the tools was pushing $100,000 just to do RPG development, I'd begin to wonder how I could justify that.

I do just a bit of RPG on this JS12. Most of my new development is in Java so my MyEclipse installation is all I am using at present. I still plan to press forward with EGL development which necessitates RBD rather than RDi so the reason I got RDi and the ILE compilers was pragmatic rather than economic: I wanted to force myself to stay in the Eclipse development environment regardless of what I was doing. I had purchased RBD before so I can continue to use it with any box (as far as I know).

I don't know how this stacks up with Microsoft tooling. I haven't looked at licensing Visual Studio in years......

Pete


Aaron Bartell wrote:

>Us open source folks chafe a bit at those numbers......

[Aaron goes to get his son's "Butt Paste" to ease the chafe that is now spreading on his RPG typing fingers]

Oh mama. That is quite the crazy pricing! I would guess most wouldn't need the OPM compilers, but then again I have very little exposure to those types of customers these days so maybe it is more prominent than I know.