WDSC Is Out, Rational Developer for System i Is In

["Eric Lehti" <elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comments, anyone?

A few snippets from the article,
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021108-story01.html

WDSC Is Out, Rational Developer for System i Is In

. . .  As part of the announcements last week, the System i platform is
formally and finally being pulled in alongside IBM <http://www.ibm.com>
's other platforms--z/OS and AIX (and others that it supports, mainly
Linux and Windows, but also HP-UX and Solaris)--over at its Rational
software development division within Software Group.\
. . . . was formerly known as WebSphere Development Studio will be split
into three pieces, which customers can order separately as

>  . . . According to George Farr, worldwide development product manager
for tools and compilers for the System i platform at the Rational
division, IBM is withdrawing WebSphere Development Studio Client 7.0
(WDSC) and WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition 7.0
(WDSC AE) from marketing, and more importantly, that IBM is getting
ready to sunset product support for WDSC and WDSC AE in the March or
April 2010 timeframe.
"The direction for the future is to invest in Rational Developer for
System i," explains Farr,