Comments on: WDSc version 7.0 lacking http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/wdsc-version-70-lacking/ A Search400.com blog Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:55:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jim Mason http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/wdsc-version-70-lacking/#comment-275 Jim Mason Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:42:13 +0000 http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/03/21/wdsc-version-70-lacking/#comment-275 Yes – WDSC 7.0 is a step backwards on CODE Designer and EGL. Yes customers are not notified of changes in product strategy more than a year in advance because it’s too unpredictable at IBM. Yes, the replacement LPEX editor lacks alot of the functionality CODE Designer had.

The larger issue is who SHOULD own the AS/400/iseries/system i platform? IBM Toronto, IBM Rochester or you? My guess is the platform would be more successful IF it were open-sourced and managed actively by the customer base rather than IBM. The Apache model supports that type of argument – let IBM provide resources but the product management decisions are managed by a committe elected by the users …. perhaps via COMMON

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