Windows based editer/Debugger

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

 >> Has anyone, (who can talk about it), heard if there are pricing changes
on Code/400 with the next release of OS/400?

I saw George Farr speak at OMNI yesterday so I can tell you the bits that
he made public.  This is from memory as I don't have a copy of the handout.

As you probably already know, the V4R5 release (known as WDT/400) dropped
the price to $300 per seat and includes VisualAge for Java Professional
(with the AS/400 features from the Enterprise edition) plus Websphere
Studio) with the AS/400 Affinity Wizards).  Along with VARPG and Code/400
this makes a pretty good package that will let you develop for yesterday
(5250<g>) today and tomorrow without having to go begging for more money
for new tools.

Later this year (3rd quarter I think the chart said) they will add the
Webfacing components to WDT/400 (Webfacing being a form of
screen-scraping).

They have also stated that at some point in the future they are hoping to
have all the tools work under a single IDE and to combine ADTS, WDT/400 and
the language compilers as a complete AS/400 developers tool kit.  The
pricing objective for this will be for it to be comparable to the combined
total of ADTS and the RPG compiler.

At $300 a seat I don't see any point in waiting for it to _possibly_ be
"free" in some future V5 release.  You can get the $300 back inside a month
of usage of Code/400 alone.




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