Weaving WebSphere: Is WDSC Worth It or Not?
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I will add that for all these years, Windows IDE developers have required and been provided beefed up PC's because the IDE needed it. This is just a standard requirement for IDE developers, and has been. The difference is that we now have that IDE ourselves for iseries development, and can make just as good use of it. Any company that has any other heavy duty software development will not be strangers to the specs required for the PC's to run these Integrated Development Environments. If they are strangers to IDE's such as Visual Studio or Eclipse and balk at spending on a PC workstation for software development, it had better be because they have no plans for any other software development, because they won't be able to get by with anything else. Along those lines, in discussions with the purchase approval people I would refer to this as the Websphere Development Studio. I would not refer to it as WDSC or WSAD unless you hear a Microsoft developer refer to their IDE as VS, which is not done in public discussions. I would also refer to the development as ILE, which they do as .NET. ILE is RPG, C, C++, COBOL, and CL which supports Java and script languages such as PHP, Perl, and Python, and was in use before .NET was dreamed up, if looking at ILE and Java specs is dreaming. I would also describe Websphere Development Studio as an Eclipse plug-in, and Eclipse as the now standard software development environment for everything but proprietary Microsoft languages. And Eclipse is open source. No vendor lock-in there. As for what immediate benefits there are to the business, I would mention that it supports modular development with logic architected in one place and more opportunities to tap into tested code already in production. That's real ROI, and it's the reason everyone else has an IDE. Eclipse is that IDE for most outside of the Windows development world. But just to show how open it is, there's a .NET plug-in too. Bottom line, to develop integrated code for integrated systems requires an integrated development environment. Here's the PO. Thanks. rd
** This thread discusses the article: Weaving WebSphere: Is WDSC Worth It or Not? **
I will add that for all these years, Windows IDE developers have required and been provided beefed up PC's because the IDE needed it. This is just a standard requirement for IDE developers, and has been. The difference is that we now have that IDE ourselves for iseries development, and can make just as good use of it. Any company that has any other heavy duty software development will not be strangers to the specs required for the PC's to run these Integrated Development Environments. If they are strangers to IDE's such as Visual Studio or Eclipse and balk at spending on a PC workstation for software development, it had better be because they have no plans for any other software development, because they won't be able to get by with anything else. Along those lines, in discussions with the purchase approval people I would refer to this as the Websphere Development Studio. I would not refer to it as WDSC or WSAD unless you hear a Microsoft developer refer to their IDE as VS, which is not done in public discussions. I would also refer to the development as ILE, which they do as .NET. ILE is RPG, C, C++, COBOL, and CL which supports Java and script languages such as PHP, Perl, and Python, and was in use before .NET was dreamed up, if looking at ILE and Java specs is dreaming. I would also describe Websphere Development Studio as an Eclipse plug-in, and Eclipse as the now standard software development environment for everything but proprietary Microsoft languages. And Eclipse is open source. No vendor lock-in there. As for what immediate benefits there are to the business, I would mention that it supports modular development with logic architected in one place and more opportunities to tap into tested code already in production. That's real ROI, and it's the reason everyone else has an IDE. Eclipse is that IDE for most outside of the Windows development world. But just to show how open it is, there's a .NET plug-in too. Bottom line, to develop integrated code for integrated systems requires an integrated development environment. Here's the PO. Thanks. rd
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