RE: what's next?

> I just read this at
> http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@.6ae8bff9 :
> 
> <quote>
> [IBM will in 2004] Put Rational Software in complete charge 
> of tool strategy. When IBM unveiled the SDP last month, it 
> also turned over responsibility for the WebSphere Studio tool 
> family to Rational Software.
> As part of the move, IBM transferred 400 internal staff 
> members from the WebSphere Studio group to the Rational 
> division. As a consequence, Rational Software is now in full 
> control of IBM's development tools and the SDP strategy.
> </quote>

<TIC>

Yup.  IBM is just now getting WDSC to a really nice point, so it's company
policy they must now completely redo it.

IBM will first state there will be no changes to WDSC that will adversely
affect us.  Later, the actual formal announcement mad by IBM will quietly
say they will just have to rebuild it from the ground up.

Not to worry though.  It will be declared strategic and in about 18-24
months they'll have the new editor (whatever it is) almost to the point the
lpex editor is now.  That is good because the lpex editor now is actually
starting to get to the feature-point that CODE was a couple of years ago.

</TIC>

I wondor if the suits at IBM have any clue what this does to us, the
customer, as well as what it does to the really hardworking developers IBM
has that continue to bust their butts to deliver something as nice as WDSC.
Here we go again.

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