Re: George Farr declares feature specific pricing on horizon for WDSC

Booth,

I was thinking this myself.

Keep including WDSC, and charge extra for SEU/PDM/SDA.

If nobody pays to use it, then you should be able to drop maintenance of it 
altogether and put the
monies into WDSC.

It seems to me that IBM should be trying to find reason for people to use WDSC, 
not find ways to get
them to stick with SEU/PDM/SDA.

Realistic?  Probably not.  (So nobody needs to tell me it will never happen ;-)

But from experience, trying to get the ok to use WDSC in a large shop, my best 
argument has been that
we already have a license for the tool and don't have to pay anything extra.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:33 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] George Farr declares feature specific 
pricing on horizon for WDSC

I wonder what would happen if IBM decided to price PDM 
separately, and 
bundle WDSC in the developer package.   Could there be business logic 
for this?
There certainly is precedent: check the pricing strategy of 
repair parts on automobiles as a model moves through its life cycle.

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