RE: WDSC v5 (was: SEU vs. ?) -- RPG400-L


>But a company with say 25 developers would be about $2500 + the labor to
install it, figure what, another $500...
Why would you pay somebody to install your memory. . .  If you know how to
write RPG programs you should have no problem learning how to install memory
:-) 

>so that's a $3000 expense. 
If you have a shop of 25 programmers I would have to say that $3000 won't do
too much to your budget given the payback in PC performance you are going to
get and programmer productivity.  If you have a bad machine count up the
time it takes you to wait for things to get done or reboot when it crashes.
That is how I justify new PC's to management.  It isn't so hard to buy me a
new PC when I spend up to 30 minutes a day waiting for my PC to do stuff (of
course WDSc 5.0 didn't help this out at all :-)

>If you could send someone to COMMON or RPG World would you do that or add
the extra memory to the PC's?
IMO, without a doubt, add more memory to PC's.  Pretty much anything that is
at those conferences can be found online (these forums are a good example).
Conferences are better suited to someone getting into something very early
on - then they provide a wealth of knowledge.


Just my opinion on the third point.
Aaron Bartell




-----Original Message-----
From: Bob cozzi [mailto:cozzi@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:38 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: WDSC v5 (was: SEU vs. ?)


$30 to $40 isn't strickly accurate--perhaps for 256 Meg you can get it at
$59 or so (plus or minus $10). But a company with say 25 developers would be
about $2500 + the labor to install it, figure what, another $500... so
that's a $3000 expense.  If you could send someone to COMMON or RPG World
would you do that or add the extra memory to the PC's?   


Bob Cozzi
Cozzi Consulting
www.rpgiv.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:15 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: WDSC v5 (was: SEU vs. ?)

>but the Eclipse IDE is a RAM hungry beast.

Just for example, I check how much memory Eclipse (WDSc) is using every once
in a while and it pretty much stays at the 175 -200MB range almost all the
time.  So you can see why you would want at _least_ 512MB (that is what I
have and I want to upgrade).  Memory is so stinkin cheap now adays that it
shouldn't be a problem.  Just watch for deals at your local Best Buy and you
can pick up 512MB of RAM for $30-$40.

Aaron Bartell
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