Re: EGL vs. Java

I agree with Tom. I'll happily give up SEU, SDA, and RLU, but until there's a graphical interface that provides sub-second access to thousands of objects or members without building a filter first, PDM is a very valuable tool. You don't want to know how long it takes RSE to list the handful of source files (with, as I said, thousands of members) in our production source library on a simple drill-down.

I'm eyeing this change with a bit of dread. Our machines are P50s with roughly 150 developers. I could see someone deciding that everyone gets ADTS only as a cost-saving measure. It would be so much easier to argue the case for getting RDi for those of us who want to use it if PDM wasn't part of the equation so that we would never need ADTS again...

Dave Shaw

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] EGL vs. Java

Aaron Bartell wrote:

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.

Note that PDM is useful for so much more than just "program
development" and PDM is bundled into ADTS. Granted, PDM can be
somewhat replaced with WDSC, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to
use WDSC for more basic management kinds of things.

OTOH, if iNav was a bit more responsive and could more easily accept
'user options', then even PDM would lose some usefulness.

Perhaps there's some validity in viewpoints other than as
'developers/programmers' for some tools.

Tom Liotta

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