Re: Switching to RDI from SEU

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be interesting to hear from a bigger shop that is contemplating 
the move to new hardware and software.  My pricing was based on a config 
that may not be "real world" enough but if you had 20 developers and the 
ticket, just for the tools was pushing $100,000 just to do RPG 
development, I'd begin to wonder how I could justify that.

I do just a bit of RPG on this JS12.  Most of my new development is in 
Java so my MyEclipse installation is all I am using at present.  I still 
plan to press forward with EGL development which necessitates RBD rather 
than RDi so the reason I got RDi and the ILE compilers was pragmatic 
rather than economic: I wanted to force myself to stay in the Eclipse 
development environment regardless of what I was doing.  I had purchased 
RBD before so I can continue to use it with any box (as far as I know).

I don't know how this stacks up with Microsoft tooling.  I haven't 
looked at licensing Visual Studio in years......

Pete


Aaron Bartell wrote:
>  >Us open source folks chafe a bit at those numbers......
>
> [Aaron goes to get his son's "Butt Paste" to ease the chafe that is now 
> spreading on his RPG typing fingers]
>
> Oh mama.  That is quite the crazy pricing!  I would guess most wouldn't 
> need the OPM compilers, but then again I have very little exposure to 
> those types of customers these days so maybe it is more prominent than I 
> know.
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