Re: George Farr declares feature specific pricing onhorizon for WDSC

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

If we've learned anything, social engineering through taxation does not
accomplish its intended goal.

As someone indirectly suggested, the programmers using these tools do not have
much say in the purchase/acquisition of said tools. 
If it cost more that $39 (est.) then System i5 programmers will not spend their
own money on it. 

Unfortunately, IBM Canada now has to wait until IBM changes the product and OS
names again. At that point, they can repackage everything. 

Call it System i6
Call the OS "Power/OS" or i6/OS
Repackage WDSC the way Microsoft does MS Office and its components.

Done! Problem solved.

But if IBM "wants all the money up front" as they usually do, and a few years
later wonders why they don't have an annuity like MS Office provides, we'll have
the same conversation all over again; as we do every half dozen years or so.


-Bob Cozzi
www.i5PodCast.com
Ask your manager to watch i5 TV



-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:50 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] George Farr declares feature specific pricing onhorizon
for WDSC

Booth,

I was thinking this myself.


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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