Joe,
I understand and appreciate the fact that IBM has to recoup costs and generate revenue but this is a major paradigm shift for them and I have to be able to sell my boss on this basically sight unseen. I know I can download and use free for 90 days but when this is a back burner project that I spend my "free" time on it is not a priority so I postpone starting it up until I have time. Since that never comes I am never able to write a "proof of concept" project to use to sell my boss on spending the $1200 to keep it going. It is a bit of the chicken and egg. If I had a way to ramp up to this without worrying about an expiring license I would probably get to it much sooner, as it is I probably won't. Also in my shop I am swimming upstream against .Net and a general bias against hosting anything more than the database on the i.
Douglas Belcher
KV Pharmaceutical
St Louis, MO
Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:38 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Truly later thinking...Honey, grab me another beer
Guillermo Andrades, CPI Software wrote:
much of the "anti-EGL bias" is for the way IBM (Rational) want to introduce
it in the community: high level costs, not upgrading from wdsc and so on.
I know you want it for free, but IBM can't give it away. Personally, I
think $1200 is a pretty good price, if you're developing web
applications. I'd guess it makes me twice as productive as trying to
code everything by hand, so it depends on how much time you spend
developing web apps.
But think about this: if the tool makes you just 10% more productive,
that's like getting more than an extra month of work. Is your time
worth $1200 a month?
Joe
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