Re: What Do I Need to Know/Do about RDi

Your first sentence is not correct Paul. As best I know RDi has never been licensed to the workstation. There are only really two kinds of licenses. Floating user - which limits the number of users that can be actively using the product. And User licenses which allow you to install the product on any number of devices as long as only one is being used at a time.

There are two variants of the User license. The cheapest option is the "Buy it and get support for a year" - after a year it continues to work but will not be upgraded - nor can it be switched to a version with maintenance. The second, more commonly used, user license comes with 12 months support and updates and if you pay the software maintenance fee each year (as I do) you get full support, new versions, and fixes for as long as you pay your support fee.

Floating licenses are a good idea in shops where the programmers spend maybe 30% of their time on RPG and the rest of their time on Java/PHP or whatever. Even then they don't work well the n all the RPG work is going on at the same time!


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Dec 14, 2018, at 8:14 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When we first acquired RDI, we purchased one license.
Single copy, could be used on the workstation is was installed to.

Latter, when multiple users needed to access, we acquired two floating licenses.
The floating licenses have worked out better for us.

Research the license options, you have options.

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 5:57 PM
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Subject: Re: What Do I Need to Know/Do about RDi

I don't want to speak for Doug, and while I'm sure he appreciates all
the responses so far, it sounds like his boss doesn't really need much
arm-twisting. If I were in his shoes, I think I would be most
interested in the pricing options and recommendations on how to choose
among those.

I haven't had to keep those straight in my mind, because my shop isn't
at the stage where we're even considering RDi. But I vaguely recall
that there's a "floating license" (or maybe I have the name wrong)
which almost nobody recommends. It seems to only be a good deal for
very special circumstances, and occasionally we hear on these lists
from someone who unwittingly got stuck with that one and regretted it.
This is the kind of help I'd want if I were in Doug's place.

John Y.
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