Re: Advanced vs. Standard

Okay, Lee Kroon and I just got off the phone with George and Kou-Mei.  Lee
will be getting all the details out shortly, but there are some very
specific messages they wanted us to share with the community:

1. SDA and PDM are dead.  When we asked what dead meant, we got some
conflicting answers, but as far as I could make out the concept of dead here
is that they will get as little dollars as required to keep them current
with the language syntax.

2. CODE is deprecated.  Deprecated is worse than dead.  The CODE tools will
NOT be updated for syntax changes.

And perhaps the real stunner:

3. WDSC AE is $3500 a SEAT for iSeries developers.

We'll have more complete answers in the near future, most likely in articles
at MCPressOnline (including my interpretation of what this all means for
WDSC and the iSeries).  But they wanted to get some of this out specifically
to combat some of the FUD in the field (although I can't see where the $3500
a seat price point is going to stop anything except the acceptance of AE in
the iSeries community).


Joe

From: rob@xxxxxxxxx

I don't see SDA going away anytime soon.  For something that drastic
they'd have to update:
http://www-
304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/futuresftwr.html