From: Aaron Bartell
I am not sure why you are bringing up development platforms.
Actually, you brought it up. Remember asking for compilers? This is not the
first time you've suggested that IBM offer hosting for individual developers.
We've been discussing it for months. It's a relevant problem. We should be
discussing it. I just suggest that when you throw out low-ball pricing, that
you back it up with valid comparisons.
Then there's www.dreamhost.com. I understand that there is a valid role for
commodity web services. We use a commodity service for our web site, but I just
won't pursue business relationships with companies that lie right off the bat
with come-on offers of "unlimited" services at insignificant cost.
Since www.hosting.com appears to be a more legitimate solution for developers,
maybe we can discuss it. It's just that their offer doesn't appear to be for a
development box. It doesn't include compilers, for example. You'd need
something like Visual Studio for that. But I don't see how Visual Studio, MS
SQL server, IIS, and ASP.Net could run under a 600 Mhz, 1GB RAM constraints. And
the only DB at the $65/month price point is the free edition of SQL Server
Express, which is constrained by design. They ask $179/month for the plan with
MS SQL Server Web edition, which has fewer constraints.
Do they have anything equivalent to PDM? DFU? WRKDBF? Query? STRSQL?
Command Prompting? Menus? Multiple Interactive Sessions?
-Nathan
midrange.com
