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And not to too my own horn too terribly loudly, but I've also written about
this on several occasions, most recently here:
http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc/.6b4f0d0a
And I'll have another article coming out next week with more details on the
new features and another call to IBM to get the pricing correct.
Make sure you keep the pressure on IBM to stop trying to view the System i
as an untapped tools revenue stream. Whichever marketing genius decided to
try to suck money out of the System i evidently forgot about the inflated
costs for disk drives and RAM and the thousands of dollars we pay for the
operating system and the compilers and the mandatory maintenance and
support.
For paying that premium price -- in effect, buying the "business class"
seats on the IBM development plane -- we really expect all our tools
bundled. And indeed, if you want ISVs to be able to write code using those
tools, you need to include them so they know that end users can get them at
a reasonable price as well.
In short, IBM: Take the word "unbundled" out of the System i lexicon,
please.
Joe
From: albartell
Here is the original article if anyone needs to know WHY they should be
submitting comments to Sam:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh031207-story02.html
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