Re: IBM is so confusing!

Not to mention many posts to get this straight.

Personally I think Rational Development Studio for i, Rational Development Studio for AIX COBOL, etc would be clearer. The whole suite would be Rational Development Studio Professional (copying MS naming conventions).

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On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Scott Klement <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, the product is named "Rational Developer for Power Systems Software"
(which alone is too long and cumbersome to really use in a marketing
slogan... heck it might even be too long for an elevator pitch.) But by
itself, that name "Rational Developer for Power Systems Software"
doesn't actually /mean/ anything, because you also have to specify which
of the 4 options you want.

The options are named "RPG and COBOL Development Tools",from which,
apparently, we have to just assume it's for IBM i, because it doesn't
say that. We also have to know that it contains tools for other things
besides RPG and COBOL (DDS, CL, C, C++, etc) because the name doesn't
say that either. Why wasn't this option named "Development tools for i"
or something similar?!

The other three options tell which languages on which platforms, but are
there more that they don't list?

At any rate, the whole thing is confusing the point of being unwieldy.
It takes a 15 minute talk to understand the name of the product.

And how does Java/J2EE/Websphere/HTML fit into all of this?


On 1/27/2011 11:53 AM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:

Hi Scott,
The product name is: Rational Developer for Power Systems Software
And there are 4 separately licensable parts to it.
1) RPG and COBOL Development Tools
2) COBOL Development Tools for AIX
3) C/C++ Development Tools for AIX
4) C/C++ Development Tools for Linux

So option 1 corresponds to what used to be available with RDi and WDSc.
The remain options are new function targeting other operating systems that
also run on the Power hardware.

HTH,
Edmund

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