Re: RDi Lite

...that particular horse has long since bolted unfortunately. IBM has seemingly spent the last 20 years, at least, trying to kill off its bastard child. Even the stupid, single letter name "i" seems to be a deliberate attempt to make it impossible to Google anything useful. I've made this point before, but I spend most of my time developing web apps now for the IBM i, using Angular/Typescript, Java and SQL. All of which are done with open source IDEs and tooling. I use RDI for the RPG bits, which I paid for myself but, in my opinion, it lags far behind the freely available tools for other environments. It's all very well saying it's far more productive than SEU, which is true of course, but compared to modern, free IDEs, it lags behind.

Tim

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From: Justin Taylor
Sent: Friday 2 February, 19:04
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi Lite
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client forSystem i & iSeries


" To grow the system, you need the college kids have free/cheap access to the IBM i." That's another can of worms entirely. -----Original Message----- From: DFreinkel [mailto:dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2018 7:15 AM To: WDSC Subject: [WDSCI-L] RDi Lite From my point of view, a small shop with 1 or 2 developers, the cost is pretty steep. The old model linking to the model size really worked for me. So the price was low for P05 systems and affordable. With the current pricing by IBM, I am at an extreme cost disadvantage at a cost of $1,000 per year plus per seat. This is the same cost as the big systems pay. Everyone and IBM wonder why nobody wants to pay for RDI especially small shops and individuals. Students coming out of college cannot afford to gain entry to the IBM i space..... Microsoft has the visual studio that anyone can download and use. It does not have all the functionality but you can begin developing at a low cost. RDi needs a similar offering. To grow the system, you need the college kids have free/cheap access to the IBM i. Darryl Freinkel iPad -- This is the Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries (WDSCI-L) mailing list To post a message email: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.midrange.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fwdsci-l&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cbd4a69d96a914cc9225608d56a675e35%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636531914545794675&sdata=QYLnt3dH5eSwTlmbiBRhrJdAWRz8i%2BsJMGlDsgA9amo%3D&reserved=0 or email: WDSCI-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.midrange.com%2Fwdsci-l&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cbd4a69d96a914cc9225608d56a675e35%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636531914545794675&sdata=9wHq%2Bt8EPeSmyt1tT9Lw3M0zt%2BL3sSLw60o64qj%2B80c%3D&reserved=0.