Re: RDi vs SEU

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very nice!

On 4/3/2015 8:20 AM, Carl J Novit wrote:
> Vern,
> In fact you can still upgrade licenses through Passport Disadvantage.
> You need a Passport Advantage business partner to make this work.
> Just upgraded three licenses.
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> Thanks,
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> Carl Novit
> Vice President
> Extension: 7708
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> From:   Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"
> <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   04/03/2015 08:53 AM
> Subject:        Re: RDi vs SEU
> Sent by:        "RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> John
>
> I am sure that you can still get the trade-up - check with your BP - it
> ended up being about $600 per seat, down from the c.$950 price for an
> authorized user license. That license is now $1030.
>
> Going this way you stay with the licensed-product approach. I don't know
> if the trade-up is available through Passport Advantage, I suspect not,
> as these systems don't seem to talk to each other. PA has one advantage,
> you are notified that support is expiring. If you BP doesn't tell you
> with the licensed product, you could miss the maintenance payment. Or
> keep track of it yourself.
>
> Vern
>
> On 4/2/2015 11:11 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:20 PM,  <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -snip-
> > > They also offer a trade-up from ADTS to RDi
> > > for a decent discount. For us, as well as many shops, we had a lot more
> > > ADTS seats than we would ever need. So we've traded up several ADTS
> > > licenses to acquire RDi seats.
> > Damn.  It's likely we would have qualified for that too.
> -snip-