In my mind it comes down to this: Why would people still want ADTS? Note I
am taking pricing out of the picture for these comments.
1) I need it personally for the times when WDSC bombs on me to the point
where I need to shut down and start back up.
2) I need it on my customers machines as many of them don't have WDSC
installed on their PC's (not enough horse power).
3) When I want to find out about binding errors with CRTBNDRPG I use PDM. I
could of course type it all out on the command line, but PDM get's me there
in 3 seconds vs. 30 seconds.
- I can get around #1 if a single user license of ADTS is included with the
OS.
- #2 is addressed in two parts. If they don't use WDSC then they will simply
buy ADTS and for now it sounds like it will be a wash. If they would like
to use WDSC (RDi) they will have a better chance now because it requires
much less foot print on the desktop (can run on 512MB of memory). It
appears IBM has a done a good job of trimming fat off the base install and
only include what RPG coders need in RDi.
- #3 bothers me because I don't have an easy way to do this through WDSC
unless I start hacking.
So really in the end I would vote for a single no-charge license of ADTS
with any new System i purchase. I fully support them in "encouraging"
customers to move to the latest technologies. But I don't know if their
approach is good or bad at this point other than they will catch a lot of
flak.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 10:16 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] EGL vs. Java
Nathan Andelin wrote:
Joe Pluta wrote:
I went so far as to say they should actually charge more for ADTS than
for RDi, thus giving people an incentive to move to the new tools as
they become comfortable.
It's bad enough to milk one customer base in order to subsidize another,
but charging more for ADTS than RDi borders on rediculous.
You should be off of ADTS. Period. No new customers should ever have
more than one license to ADTS, and that should be included in the OS.
I'd suggest no more than $100 difference. The "charging more" would
then amount to something like $20 a seat a year. That will be your
"staying in the past" tax.
Joe
midrange.com
