Re: WDSC V7 Turbo Boost

I think I'm going to have to wait for OS V6.1 to finally get Rdi. Then, I expect to have issues with the fact that I only have a 7 year old P4 1.8gHz with 785MB. It's been a long hard haul from WDSc V5, and I couldn't honestly say that it makes me more productive as I lose so much time with the bugs. Although, I feel WDSc has opened a lot of doors and led me onto a lot of new things. I'd never want to go back to greenscreen - once I did and I thought I'd gone blind, there seemed to be no code on the screen.

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De : wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Aaron Bartell
Envoyé : vendredi 9 janvier 2009 15:35
À : Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Objet : Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSC V7 Turbo Boost

I think adoption will slow considerably given the fact that there is no low cost entry into the "new WDSC" (i.e. RDi). I still firmly believe IBM is shooting themselves in the foot by approaching it the way they did without even giving a single-seat-no-charge copy of RDi with every compiler purchase. Get it into every shop so it becomes the house-hold name for doing RPG development, and then when the shop needs more than one license they get to get out their checkbook (but at this point they full recognize the ROI).

A 90-day trial will work well enough for existing WDSC users to determine if they want to pay for RDi, but I hardly believe it is enough time for an average SEU RPG programmer to make the switch from scratch.

It becomes an up-hill battle to educate people on such an excellent tool (which I believe it to be the best out there) when the only real way they can experience it is to get out their empty checkbook. In the past I have done quite a few articles, sessions, newsletters, etc, promoting WDSC because it was simply a matter of getting through the politics and installing it on machines. How do authors/writers promote it now that it costs so much? I really wish IBM would have taken the MyEclipseIDE approach of charging maybe $50/year/user and then have all support done through an online forum and let the community resolve most of the issues instead of having to open up a PMR. Heck, the IBM'ers on this list are already doing that to some extent (which I think is absolutely wonderful btw).

Those are my thoughts for a Friday :-)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

Trevor Perry wrote:

David,

Sorry - I finally realized you said 95% of THE shop.

I am finding more and more shops are getting over their problems with
the older versions of WDSC, and are adopting it fresh. If you treat it
like it IS new, you may be able to convert everyone over!

Good luck,
Trevor


On 1/9/09 8:57 AM, "Trevor Perry" <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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