RE: RAD and RDi

[MKirkpatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

When I went from RDi to RDi SOA I just paid the difference.
 



From:
Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
To:
"'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
05/20/2009 01:09 PM
Subject:
RE: RAD and RDi
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Thanks Joe. I have a follow up. Do you know if I license just RDi today 
and in 6 months want to move up to RDi SOA is there an upgrade path where 
I just pay the difference or would I need to buy a new RDi SOA license and 
the RDi license would go to waste?  I can't find anything on the IBM site 
for upgrading from RDi to RDi SOA

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:12 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: RAD and RDi

Mike Cunningham wrote:
> I want to move to RDi and/or RDA and want be sure I have the tools 
correct.
> I have some developers just doing RPG/CL/DDS etc applications - they 
need a license to RDi
>
Yup.

> I have some developers doing RPG/CL/DDS and want to do some EGL and 
light java - they need a license to RDi SOA
>
Yup.

> I have some developers doing RPG/CL/DDS and some more involved java and 
might be doing J2EE (using WDSC now) - they need a license to RDA and RDi
>
Well, until they're actually doing heavy J2EE, they don't need RAD.  You 
might find you get enough horsepower from RDi-SOA.  I'd be interested to 
know what they're trying to accomplish in J2EE that can't be done in 
EGL.  Remember, EGL supports full JSF functionality (with a world-class 
JSF editor), and also allows you to invoke any external Java classes you 
might need.

> Is this correct?
>
> Thanks

Yer welcome ;)

Joe