Re: Adoption of RPG OA

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

A kiddleivey too, wouldn't you?

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's exactly right. Also, if someone is an IBM partner, they can use
> the virtual loaner program - I early on asked that they make OA
> available there, and it is. Aaron Bartell has an article talking about
> becoming a partner - might need to google it. I think anyone CAN do that
> - then the VLP is a free offering, and absolutely no cost for OS. You
> are limited to, at most, 16 days 19 hours or so at a time for a VLP
> reservation, but you can re-up.
>
> If 16 days 19 hours seems a strange duration, it's the 14-day max when
> you start a reservation, plus a 20% extension you can make.
>
> The last sentence makes me think of that great old song, "/Mairzy doats
> and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey" - it was #1 in March, 1944./
>
> On 3/11/2011 9:34 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
> > On Mar 11, 2011, at 9:26 AM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > I will second Vern's comments about the cost being an issue.  I got our manager to purchase the development feature but until I can work with it and prove out its merits we won't be buying the run-time feature.
> > >
> > > I just completed coding on a project that would have been a good fit for OA but couldn't use it because we don't have the run-time yet.  I did however use the parameter passing concepts of OA in the interface.  So, even though I'm not using OA directly I am using knowledge I gained from looking at and reading up on the product.
> > >
> > > Hopefully soon I can do the proof-of-concept work and we can get the run-time in house.
> > Just a thought - but I'm fairly certain that the good Doctor and Igor offer OA on their V6 and V7 offerings at idevcloud.com. At $50 a month for a shared partition that would be a cheap way to do a proof of concept without having to actually purchase OA.
> >
> > Just thinking out loud.
> >
> >
> > Jon Paris
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