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>> Has anyone, (who can talk about it), heard if there are pricing changes on Code/400 with the next release of OS/400? I saw George Farr speak at OMNI yesterday so I can tell you the bits that he made public. This is from memory as I don't have a copy of the handout. As you probably already know, the V4R5 release (known as WDT/400) dropped the price to $300 per seat and includes VisualAge for Java Professional (with the AS/400 features from the Enterprise edition) plus Websphere Studio) with the AS/400 Affinity Wizards). Along with VARPG and Code/400 this makes a pretty good package that will let you develop for yesterday (5250<g>) today and tomorrow without having to go begging for more money for new tools. Later this year (3rd quarter I think the chart said) they will add the Webfacing components to WDT/400 (Webfacing being a form of screen-scraping). They have also stated that at some point in the future they are hoping to have all the tools work under a single IDE and to combine ADTS, WDT/400 and the language compilers as a complete AS/400 developers tool kit. The pricing objective for this will be for it to be comparable to the combined total of ADTS and the RPG compiler. At $300 a seat I don't see any point in waiting for it to _possibly_ be "free" in some future V5 release. You can get the $300 back inside a month of usage of Code/400 alone. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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