Re: RDI and RDI-SOA pricing change

Jeff Crosby wrote:

Cross-posted to midrange-l and WDSC-l.

I wanted to order V6R1 last week (which would have included the RDI stuff, at a cost), but the BP convinced me to wait because there was to be an IBM announcement concerning RDI on 10/28.

I have not seen the announcement myself (the BP cannot even find it), but you can now *upgrade* from WDSC to RDI at a 40% discount. Instead of $795 it's $477.

This is just a little bit inaccurate. You don't upgrade WDSC to RDi. You upgrade from ADTS to RDi. RDi is meant as a replacement to PDM and SEU, not a replacement of WDSC.

You can upgrade licenses of WDSC/AE to RDi-SOA, but there are no entitlements or upgrades for the free standard edition of WDSC.

Since I wanted RDI-SOA for future reasons, I asked for the informal quote using RDI-SOA. Guess what. There's no discount for RDI-SOA, it's still $1995. This is what the BP rep was told when he called in to the mothership about RDI pricing.

There ought to be an upgrade price from a licensed seat of RDi to a licensed seat of RDi-SOA, and it ought to be $1200, but I don't think they've gotten that far.

So let me get this right. We can *upgrade* from WDSC to RDI, but not from WDSC to RDI-SOA. With IBM pushing EGL, that doesn't make sense to me. A 40% discount of $1995 would be $1197. So do the IBM marketing folks want us to use EGL or not? Am I not understanding something correctly?

Just to be clear, you are upgrading from ADTS to RDi. You can only upgrade based on the number of seats of ADTS you are entitled to; it has nothing to do with WDSC. It would be nice if IBM included an option to upgrade all the way from ADTS to RDi-SOA at a discount, but I don't know of any plan to do so.

Joe