RE: Application development tools (was: no subject)

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>However, with the security offered by licensing,
>...don't you think that the pirating scheme
>has little chance of life?

So very few developers have moved to Code/Flex/Studio and so very many use
SEU/PDM exclusively that I think this will cause widespread hacking of the
iSeries licensing scheme.  I don't think there's another licensed program
that more people want and use than PDM/SEU.  That includes Client Access.
Look at how many requests we see for free/low cost emulators!  People are
willing to leave the IBM fold for everything except SEU.

Here's my rhetorical question:  If IBM were to offer support for SEU (say
SQL prompting), paid for by direct subscription costs and not buried in the
WDSc umbrella, how much would the SEU users be willing to pay?  IBM will
probably support SEU if they can demonstrably make money doing so.
  --buck