Re: WDSC changing to RDi

Kelly Cookson wrote:

We spent money hiring consultants to come in and train all of our
developers how to use WDSCi. So that money might be money down the
drain. But that's not what's really driving my feelings of being burned.

If they trained you on RSE and LPEX, then you didn't lose anything. I have RDi installed, and it's exactly the same.

The comparison driving my feelings isn't the new cost of ADTS versus the
new cost of RDi. The comparison driving my feelings is the old cost of
WDSCi versus the new cost of Rdi, it's replacement. IBM can make
arguments detailing how it isn't really a bait and switch all day long.
At a gut level it feels like a bait and switch, and it's at a gut level
where there's a sense of lost trust. That may not be a loss of
money...but it's a loss nonetheless.

That's simply unreasonable. They unbundled development tools from compilers, and the same thing happened for people who weren't using WDSC at all.

Bait and switch means you are paying considerably more for something than promised (or receiving considerably less, and that's certainly not the case here). So - did you do the math to determine the cost for your shop? How much did your total cost rise? If you had 20 mixed OPM/ILE developers on a P05, you got a big sticker shock. If you had three ILE developers on a P10, the price dropped.

How did your price change? (In most shops the change in SWMA is measured in under $1000 per year, plus or minus.)

I don't think I'll be promoting any new IBM technologies in my shop
because I don't trust IBM not to bait and switch me.

Again, you're going from an incorrect gut level feel. The only real complaint I can see for most people is that in my opinion IBM should charge nothing for switching from ADTS to RDi. Anything they charge for that switch is a true double charge.

Joe