Well that was kind of off the top of my balding head after a long week...but
it was the most obvious response that one would expect from a IT manager
wishing to most cost effectively use his system as it is designed... :)
After all, don't we tout that the TCO of the iSeries is the best of class?
:)
(I'm sure I'll probably get an earful from Cancilla on that one! :)
If they charged per compile, the velocity of those leaving the platform
already would just increase and it wouldn't be competitive with it's pear
base...
Don in DC
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-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Susan Gantner
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:04 PM
To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDS Pricing Structure
Don,
What? System i shops wouldn't cheat, would they?
At least initially, the intention is for there to be no hard stop compliance
checking on the number of users; perhaps no checking at all or maybe some
kind of warning message - that detail was not clear.
I believe IBM/Rational is counting on the integrity and honesty of their
customer base to purchase the correct number of licenses based on the way
they will be using the tools and compilers. If they have placed their faith
badly, then we'll be back in the situation where they don't make enough
money to invest as much as we would like them to in the platform.
Personally, I had hoped they might think about charging per compile. Since
RSE has a verifier, it would be way cheaper to use RSE than SEU.
Of course, I suppose that does present a problem that folks compiling the
monoliths would make out better than the modern ILE modular developers.
Maybe it would need to be on lines of code compiled.
I'm sure it would be too messy and it's only a half-serious suggestion. It
just seemed to have some merit to me.
Susan Gantner
-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Don
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 7:32 PM
To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDS Pricing Structure
If you have four developers, do they all need seats to the compiler?
Only if you want them to compile anything :-)
So, how many shoppes do you think will now have everyone signing on as QPGMR
to do their compiling??? OR better yet, submit their jobs to batch via some
sbmjob that uses a user of QPGMR ??
Don in DC
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