Re: EGL vs. Java

With the Canadian dollar being around parity with the US for a while, I was expecting the prices to be a bit closer,
RDi or ADTS is 925 here (+16%).
For us, with around 60 developers, the upgrade would be somewhere between 120 k$ to 230 k$, taking into account the 20 licenses for our P40 processor group, not an insignificant amount.


Susan Gantner wrote:

Brian, Joe, et al,

I'm no good at interpreting announcement letters. But I was also at "the
meeting" and I believe that both RDi and RDi SOA can be purchased either via
Passport Advantage OR via your i5/OS LPPs. I see 2 product numbers for each
of them: one as an LPP and one as a Passport Advantage product.
I don't know whether how your purchase it impacts SWMA because there are
SWMA charges on host-based LPPs as well as Passport Advantage products.
Regardless of how your purchase them, they are user priced, so I believe the
SWMA would be per seat in either case and as far as I know, it will be the
same price - as you say probably around 20%.
I don't think pricing for RDi SOA has been announced yet. It was hinted that
the pricing for RDi SOA is probably about a month away. RDi SOA includes RDi
plus some web tooling (e.g., web services program call wizards) and does
bundle RBD.
Pricing for RDi is announced and in the US is $795 per seat. The green
screen ADTS tools are also priced at $795 per seat. If you a developer needs
both, you can do the math.

Susan Gantner