Re: The Truth About EGL

Joe,

There is just no chance this will work.

Bob Cancilla has shown us this week that Rational consider RPG to be dead,
and that they consider EGL to be the strategic future for System i.

You believed Bob Cancilla when he first told you EGL tools would never be
unbundled from WDS - even when everyone else predicted it would happen. When
it was, you were dismayed. Why would you trust Bob Cancilla after that? And
why would Rational go back to a bundle that they obviously are against?

It appears that EGL has to be an extra charge so that Rational can make some
revenue from the existing RPG customer base.

Trevor



On 12/19/07 10:55 AM, "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron (and others who are listening), please, please, PLEASE make this point
to George Farr and Bob Cancilla. I've been fighting for this forever. I've
asked that a seat for all the tools be bundled into 5722WDS and then
credited back to the Rational group.

When I first requested this, the argument was made that they couldn't get
the funds from one place to the other, but now that Rational owns both the
tooling and the compilers, there's no reason not to do this.

Note that I'm not saying unlimited seats, like we have with WDSC. Unlimited
seating is gone, and I understand that. It doesn't make fiscal sense for
IBM to have 50 developers working on a $10,000 machine (which you can
feasibly do with a model 515 and WDSC).

But if they want us to use the tools and buy more seats, they need to
include one seat with every compiler license. So PLEASE, tell Bob, email
George, call your Congressman... do whatever it takes to make sure that at
least one seat of everything is available in the box.

Joe