RE: WDSC changing to RDi

Actually, for those lurkers like myself who are completely in the dark,
do we have to pay $4,000 a seat to code COBOL and CL programs? Sorry to
be a little off-topic, but the thread has been raised...

Thanks,
Kelly

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[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 3:10 PM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: WDSC changing to RDi

So wait... if I all I want to do is edit some minor java and do RPG/CL
development, there is still no cost?

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Glenn Holmer wrote:

Joe Pluta wrote:

I'm not touching this with a ten-foot pole. If you're willing to
trust Sun, then Netbeans has a lot of features. I hate the Eclipse

vs.

Netbeans fanboy arguments, though. Yeesh.

Trust Sun... compared to, say, trusting IBM not to pull WDSC? or
VisualAge for Java before it?

P.S. The new version of NetBeans (6.1, now in beta) supports

WebSphere.

I'm not going to get into a Netbeans vs whatever debate. No way. My
point is simply who do you think is going to be more likely to have
tighter support for WebSphere? Also, that means two IDEs: one for
Java, one for ILE. Your choice.

But I do take exception to the phrase "pull WDSC". They didn't pull
anything. You can still get the same functionality that was in WDSC,
you need to get RDi and RAD. What IBM did was start charging for it.
They painted themselves into a corner when they gave it away for
nothing, and it's a huge black eye, but it's not pulling support for
anything. They're even letting you use the free version for two more
years, with support.

But if you want to cry bait and switch, I won't argue. I would just
ask you what you think they should have done. They obviously couldn't

continue to give it away for free, so what exactly did you expect them

to do?

Joe
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