Comments on: WDSC 7.0 is out….but there’s a catch http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/wdsc-70-is-outbut-theres-a-catch/ A Search400.com blog Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:55:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christian Eidsmoe http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/wdsc-70-is-outbut-theres-a-catch/#comment-272 Christian Eidsmoe Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:37:19 +0000 http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/03/16/wdsc-70-is-outbut-theres-a-catch/#comment-272 The price IBM has set for WDSC 7.0 is ridiculous. $4000.00 ? What are they thinking? ASP.NET 2.0 has FREE tools- “2005 Express Editions” that are very powerful, I know, I’m using them. It’s the same old lesson IBM has never learned- If they would invest in the iSeries, for example by nearly giving away WDSC 7, instead of trying to squeeze every penny out of it it would grow. The company I work for will definitely not pay, we’ll just keep using WDSC 6.0. Which is sad, because when we can do a .NET web app using free tools, and IBM’s aren’t guess which one will be selected?

]]> By: jaicee http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/wdsc-70-is-outbut-theres-a-catch/#comment-271 jaicee Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:44:00 +0000 http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/03/16/wdsc-70-is-outbut-theres-a-catch/#comment-271 Hey, don’t get me wrong… i love my System/ASi5400Series38 running CPF400i5AS/OS V5R4M0.R2D2 (it really screams!)… but… let me catch my breath… i think IBM has really gone off the deep marketing end!! It’s hard enough defending the platform as a system from the Microsoft everything people that i have to answer to, let alone trying to justify thousands of dollars for stuff we already have and which (with the exception of myself) may never be used by other’s ‘cuz… “it’s too hard… it’s too slow… it’s too new…”!

Great!! Now i can add, “‘cuz it’s too expensive…” to the list of wines that we get to choose from…

Thanks for letting me vent/my5!

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