Re: Application Diagram and Screen Designer demos available on line -- WDSCI-L

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Bob P. Roche wrote:

One thing to mention on the RDI discussion, I'm tired of hearing that IBM
gave us WDSC for free. All we got was unlimited licenss to the ADTS tools
and WSDC. We paid for the license program and it included the developement
tools and the compilers. IBM sold the compilers piece meal before and made
a big announcement when they bundled them up. I understand why they have
to unbundle it. But we never got WDT or WDSC for free, we paid for it. It
was in our license fee. IBM should have given the money for that to their
development team.

Bob, I don't think that's the case, honestly. When WDSC was announced, I don't remember the price of 5722WDS going up, do you? As far as I know, we did get it for free. Now, some part of thje money paid to i5/OS did indeed go towards LPEX and RSE, and that's now what's unbundled and called RDi. The vast majority of the underlying code of WDSC was actually Rational Web Developer, a tool that cost over $1500 a seat. That part we definitely did get for free - not one dollar of i5/OS money went towards that development.

So as usual, the answer is "sort of" <grin>.

Joe

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