Re: IBM Rational Developer for System i V7.1

Same here. I have been pushing for adoption since V5 and it's been an
uphill battle the whole way. Yesterday I got a couple more developers
to install V7. This will probably kill it in our shop though.

More discouraging to me was the statement of direction section. If I
read it correctly WDSC 7.0 will no longer be enhanced. It is considered
a 'stabilized' product. To get any of the new features added to the
development tools we have to purchase the IBM Rational Developer for
System i product. Think screen designer and graphical program analyzer
not to mention EGL and other web tools. I have also been actively
promoting WDSC as a platform for beginning web development for some of
our applications. It will be a pretty tough sell now.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bob P. Roche
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:29 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] IBM Rational Developer for System i V7.1

I guess WDSC7.0.0.4 is the last I will use. I can barely get my boss to
try WDSC, and was just getting a few more programmers involved. Adding a
per seat cost will kill it here, Guess I need to get my SEU skills up to
date again. : (

I knew better than to expect anything to be included in system cost with
IBM, or should I say the Rational group. First EGL and now WDSC, are
they really trying to kill their own products, or do they just have no
clue about System i customers.

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