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Every year I go through the travail of renewing SWMA on what I have now
been told by my IBM sales rep is RDG (true?). I am on the developer
discount program so I know that it doesn't follow the usual path these
renewals go through for *normal* customers but this last round of SWMA
pricing has left me baffled. Here is what the quote said:
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
LIST PRICE
Developer Purchase Price
5661-RDP -- 1-Year After License Fee for 5733-RDP/5733-RDG (Purchase
Only, No Discount)
$548.00
$548.00
No discount (which is irritating). But even more amazing is that the
(ir)-Rational site says that a *new* license with 1 year of support is
$416! I don't get why I would pay *more* for a product I own and want
to renew on a supposed *discount* program than I would pay retail.
Check out the RDP pricing here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rdp/ (note the "Buy
Now" price of $416.00 and even take a look at ALL the pricing by
clicking on the "Ready to Buy" button).
The text on the following page has this desciption:
IBM Rational Developer for Power System RPG and COBOL Development Tools
for i Authorized User Initial Fixed Term License + SW Subscription &
Support 12 Months (D0LJVLL) $416.00. Isn't that the same product as I
have listed in my SWMA renewal? What am I missing?
I blogged about it here:
http://www.petesworkshop.com/blog_wp/?p=127
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