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Apparently I never drilled down far enough. I was on the website

https://www.ibm.com/products/rational-developer-for-i/pricing

which states

Starting at
$968.00*
per user per year

Now that I've clicked on the purchase now button, I see there is an option
for an authorized user license at $1,180 that is not an annual renewal. So
I don't need to buy it every year but the version that I buy now will be out
of date by the time that I can use it again. Still not a good option for me
but thanks for the feedback that I was looking at the wrong price.



-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Brian
Parkins
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:13 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Is RDi 9.5, RDP 8.0 or even WDSCi 7.0 still in use?

FWIW, it shouldn't be costing 1K USD each year. After the first year, the
costs are for SW Maintenance Agreement only - which gives you new
versions/releases as well as support and (free) fixes. Go for a Perpetual
Licence as an Authorised User.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-purchase-rdi
<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-purchase-rdi>

However, despite the above, I don't disagree that cost is an inhibitor for
RDi adoption amongst freelancers and smaller enterprises.

Brian.

On 28/10/2020 21:47, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I would like to upgrade to RDi but I just can't justify the $1,000 a
year for the little bit that I would get to use it which for the past two
years would have been "not at all".


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