Re: RDI 7.5 vs. RDI 7.1 (and WDSC 7.0) (was: Is anyone using RTCi yet?)

David,

You are quite correct in your "perception". Interestingly enough great care
was taken to build a product that looked and worked exactly like WDSc so
that it would minimize any disruption to our customers. Take a close look
however at virtually every feature of the product. Sometimes the
enhancements are extremely subtle like one new parameter, in other cases
they are much more obvious. 7.5 was built using RTCi and an agile
development process. I was one of the "stake holders" privileged to sit in
on the weekly review meetings. Unfortunately there is so many enhancements
it is almost impossible to describe them. The big issues are speed and
performance. Commands and filters are a key area where you will see the
changes.

Please also note that not only did the announcement I reference indicate
that WDSC would go end of service on April 30, 2010, it also stated that it
was stablized at V7 at V5R4 of i5/OS and would not fully support RPG or
COBOL at IBM i 6.1.



On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Cancilla wrote:

RDi is the replacement product. RDi is not just another version of WDSc,
but is a new product written from scratch over Open Source Eclipse 3.4 as

a

base. If it looks like WDSC it is because the features of WDSC were
implemented in RDI with many new enhancements on each feature of the
product.

*** NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY
REFLECT THAT OF MY (REAL LIFE) EMPLOYER ***

Bob:

While I don't disagree in general with your comments ... and I know the
extent of the rewrites first hand (as I have had to adapt my employers
plug-in to work with both WDSC 7.0/RDi 7.1 and RDi 7.5), I have to point out
that perception is very important.

The fact that you rewrote RDi in 7.5 is probably lost to most people ...
because it looks and feels almost identically to the previous versions (much
to the RDi team's credit). You know the old saying: "If it looks like a
duck and quacks like a duck...".

*IF* I didn't know the extent of the internal changes, and was just an end
user (of RDi), my perception would be that it was an upgrade and NOT an
'replacement product'.

Again, this is PERCEPTION ... even if it's not the reality.

david

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