Re: Advanced vs. Standard

Glad WDSC 6 is working just fine for us (for now). Sounds like IBM will 
get  real earful at the next Common conference from programmers. I 
wouldn't want to be the system I rep after this announcement.  Hi, we 
aren't going to update the tools you can afford to use and, we are going 
to update the tools you can't afford to buy, have a nice day, we really 
care about the future of this machine.




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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

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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