Re: Cost of RDP

On 7/5/2011 2:57 PM, Buck wrote:

On 7/1/2011 1:03 PM, Brian Parkins wrote:

A number of folk appear to be “stuck” on WDSc v7, or forced back on to WDSc when their 60-day trial of RDP ends. Purely out of personal curiosity, what would the price of RDP have to be to encourage you to purchase it yourself?

Me, personally? I'd spend $99 US for RDp. I'd spring for an upgrade
fee of $49 if the improvements warranted it for me personally. I'm not
beating up Rational over their pricing - they need to show a profit -
I'm answering what I'd personally pay for the current product for
personal use.

SlickEdit charges $299 to purchase a single named user licence and then
you can choose to either pay annual maintenance of $90 which entitles
you to upgrades as they come out, or you can pay the upgrade fee to get
the new version, which seems to vary by version but is currently around
$129.
--buck

Okay, I'm intrigued. Why do you think SlickEdit is worth three times the cost of RDP? (Or do you?) Yes, SlickEdit supports 40 languages, but I'm betting the support is very vanilla - it has to do with plugging in one syntax tree for another. And it's not likely I'll use more than a few of those, anyway. RDP provides not only multiple languages, but also some very language-specific capabilities, whether it's expansion of BIFs in RPG or prompting of CL. Not to mention the whole remote explorer view, with its filters and whatnot, and more importantly the integrated debugging, especially the SEP support.

Sooooo... $300 and a 30% per year maintenance fee for a fantastic source editor, or $870 and a 20% maintenance fee for a fantastic editor and debugger that supports all of my languages and provides debugging and object management besides.

Not sure that Rational is all that far off the mark. And your take is that you'd only pay $100 for the Rational product. I don't quite get it.

Joe