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  3. February 2007

Re: New Release?

wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


   6. Re: New Release? (Duane Kehoe)

   Try ~$4600 for AE according to the website, I am about to bring that to my
   boss and see how quickly he starts laughing me out of the office.  And the
   part that gets me is it is a tech preview, ie beta, shouldn't that be
   provided free so it can get tested better.  Kind of funny to me IBM is
   trying something not even M$ will openly try - selling a beta.  I know we
   could debate the gold status of most of M$ software but at least they now
   provide a public beta free of charge.  Not really sure about the logic
   behind this one from IBM's point of view??
Since I'm certain that /I/ won't be paying for it at that price even though we'll probably be using it in the office, I can look at it from various sides...
From the boss' perspective, some of it should be thought of like "Will it save more than 3 hours of one developer's time every week?" I mean, at $30/hr., $4600 is less than $90/wk. Does it increase productivity enough?
Even for a tech preview, it can easily be worth spending a fraction of a developer's annual salary /if/ it actually makes a significant difference. Unfortunately, until we all see what it can do, it's guesswork. 

Tom Liotta


   albartell wrote:

 How much more is AE?  I can understand IBM's need to make some extra bling
 (I said bling ;-) for more advanced features (don't know if these features
 qualify for that or not), but if it is in the neighborhood of $2500 then I
 can tell you that I won't be getting' it.

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