Re: IBM is so confusing!

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not to mention many posts to get this straight. 

Personally I think Rational Development Studio for i, Rational Development Studio for AIX COBOL, etc would be clearer. The whole suite would be Rational Development Studio Professional (copying MS naming conventions). 

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Mike Wills
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On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Scott Klement <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, the product is named "Rational Developer for Power Systems Software" 
> (which alone is too long and cumbersome to really use in a marketing 
> slogan... heck it might even be too long for an elevator pitch.)  But by 
> itself, that name "Rational Developer for Power Systems Software" 
> doesn't actually /mean/ anything, because you also have to specify which 
> of the 4 options you want.
>
> The options are named "RPG and COBOL Development Tools",from which, 
> apparently, we have to just assume it's for IBM i, because it doesn't 
> say that.  We also have to know that it contains tools for other things 
> besides RPG and COBOL (DDS, CL, C, C++, etc) because the name doesn't 
> say that either.  Why wasn't this option named "Development tools for i" 
> or something similar?!
>
> The other three options tell which languages on which platforms, but are 
> there more that they don't list?
>
> At any rate, the whole thing is confusing the point of being unwieldy. 
> It takes a 15 minute talk to understand the name of the product.
>
> And how does Java/J2EE/Websphere/HTML fit into all of this?
>
>
> On 1/27/2011 11:53 AM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> > The product name is: Rational Developer for Power Systems Software
> > And there are 4 separately licensable parts to it.
> > 1) RPG and COBOL Development Tools
> > 2) COBOL Development Tools for AIX
> > 3) C/C++ Development Tools for AIX
> > 4) C/C++ Development Tools for Linux
> >
> > So option 1 corresponds to what used to be available with RDi and WDSc.
> > The remain options are new function targeting other operating systems that
> > also run on the Power hardware.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Edmund
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