Re: IBM Rational Developer for System i V7.1

No, what they want is for the System i to survive. Unfortunately,
having unlimited seats to every possible tool included in the
single-price 5722WDS product didn't make any money. And with no money
coming in, there is no budget for development. Unlike Microsoft, whose
development is subsidized by millions and millions of copies of Windows,

there just aren't enough i5/OS sales to support free tools.

Or perhaps that might have something to do with the fact that IBM can't
seem to market and sell the i5 to anyone but previously existing
customers? Much as I think IBM has done a lot for the IT world in
general, I think it's done a pretty poor job of selling the <insert new
name here> for a dozen years or more. There's no money because there's no
installations. But that's only my opinion.

We need to start treating the iSeries as a server box. Hardware,

software,

business applications and development tools are all separate components.
Its strength lies in its stability and uptime. I don't see XP boxes
pre-loaded with all the various packages of Visual Studio, so why should
the iSeries be any different. If the business is not willing to pay the
cost then the business needs to decide if the iSeries is really for

them.

Sure, why should the iSeries be different? But it is different. Windows
has a native gui environment that people are accustomed to, we have
green-screen. We need the bundled tools just to keep up with the
technology to produce applications that mimic the windows environment.

I just hope Joe is right, and the cost overall stays the same or is even
cheaper, however, I feel that once again with this move IBM shows that it
doesn't understand its customers.

And for crying out loud IBM, do you not remember the acronym KISS? Keep
it simple! So many names, so many products, so much bs to sort through,
it's no wonder shops migrate to windows. On the outside at least,
Microsoft makes its products appear to be simple. Of course we all know
what happens once you go down the microsoft road....

Thank you for listening, I now return you to your regularly scheduled
program.