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"When you're wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically."
Dale Carnegie
(I had to borrow one of Joe Pluta's techniques.)
I'm the one who posted the $1510 per seat price for RDPi. (I like Joe's name--at least I like it if we have to live through another branding change.) It wasn't speculation. I posted it because that's what IBM was showing at the time. In a follow up blog to the one where I quoted (not speculated) the price, it's written:
Turns out, the confusion was caused by a mistake on the Web page, which had originally only listed the price for a "floating user" license ($1,510), which is new for RDP. The only type of user license available for RDi is/was an "authorized user" ($860). Even that price is higher than you may remember from the original RDi pricing. Turns out Rational has been increasing most of their software prices slightly each year--and not just the client-based development tools.
I'm sure Mr. Chu should be aware of this. I probably wouldn't normally respond to this, but I'm not that happy about $860 per seat. Okay, I could probably even live with that, but what I don't like (because we don't have a budget for it) is the $172 per user per year that translates into for annual support costs. (Oh, and don't forget to add an a roughly equal amount per developer for Heritage compilers plus ILE compilers.) It turns out that going to 6.1 will cost us as much or more in software maintenance for our development tools (compilers and developer seats) than we pay for our entire hardware and software support in the old structure. None of this goes over too well in a small shop like ours.
Dale Carnegie
(I had to borrow one of Joe Pluta's techniques.)
I'm the one who posted the $1510 per seat price for RDPi. (I like Joe's name--at least I like it if we have to live through another branding change.) It wasn't speculation. I posted it because that's what IBM was showing at the time. In a follow up blog to the one where I quoted (not speculated) the price, it's written:
Turns out, the confusion was caused by a mistake on the Web page, which had originally only listed the price for a "floating user" license ($1,510), which is new for RDP. The only type of user license available for RDi is/was an "authorized user" ($860). Even that price is higher than you may remember from the original RDi pricing. Turns out Rational has been increasing most of their software prices slightly each year--and not just the client-based development tools.
I'm sure Mr. Chu should be aware of this. I probably wouldn't normally respond to this, but I'm not that happy about $860 per seat. Okay, I could probably even live with that, but what I don't like (because we don't have a budget for it) is the $172 per user per year that translates into for annual support costs. (Oh, and don't forget to add an a roughly equal amount per developer for Heritage compilers plus ILE compilers.) It turns out that going to 6.1 will cost us as much or more in software maintenance for our development tools (compilers and developer seats) than we pay for our entire hardware and software support in the old structure. None of this goes over too well in a small shop like ours.
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