Well, to be fair, it's not just IBM snapping up enterprise solution providers.... Oracle and SAP have made simiar acquisitions recently, so this is possibly just IBM keeping up with the Joneses....... IBM has a mixed record with acquired software companies (whatever happened to Informix. anyway?), so I'll just wait to see what IBM has up its sleeve.
As to being a feature you would pay for, then why not buy from the SCM vendors who's focus is on making development on System i more productive? Perhaps IBM's solution would be better than everyone else? If history is any guide (ADM anyone?) IBM has not done well with products that compete with its development tools partners'. Right now, with the explosion of new technologies being brought to this platform, IBM depends on third party vendors to fill in the gaps while the industry is deciding on what tech to adopt. Not a good time to p!$$ off your partners....
jmo,
Eric
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That is actually a feature I would pay for and a perfect one for IBM to ask
people to pay for (i.e. it didn't have a previous life in the SEU/PDM
world).
IBM also just bought Cognos (BI and OLAP I believe?). They are filling
their quiver with vendor products and creating competition with business
partners.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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Subject: Shouldn't WDSC include SCM? was: Automate source code backup to SVN
There's a lot of SCM vendors out there that are glad that WDSC does not
"include" it.
There's little incentive for IBM to include this. Let's face it, if IBM
included that in their "advanced" edition of WDSC, at the increased price,
would that be the straw that caused a lot of people to upgrade to
advanced? Or, would we get the uproar that we got with the preview of the
new screen designer? Or, once again, how IBM should include WDSC at no
charge to anyone so they can develop applications and thus sell more iron?
If IBM included it at no charge it would only raise their expenses, and
royally vex several SCM vendors.
IBM bought a HA vendor. However, I don't see an immediate assimilation of
that company and HA now becoming a mere option to 57##SS1 or some such
thing. (Although I've argued for years that customers would like to see
such a vital issue tightly integrated and closely supported by IBM).
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
