Re: RDi licensing - single PC and multiple AS400's

[Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marie-Line Manchon wrote:

>    I thought that a few seats were coming with the compilers,
>    and that you had to pay only for additional seats ?
>    If I'm wrong, then I have the same question...

Currently, there is one *official* IBM program to upgrade from ADTS to 
RDi: 
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS208-164 
 I can't really understand it.  I think if I buy new hardware I get a 
discount on RDi.

It's been reported that several IBMers want to give discounts to move 
from WDSC to RDi, but the details have not been *officially* released 
yet that I know of.

>    but if one of my customers buy a new system which comes with RDI,
>    will I still be able to use WDSC7 to connect to their machine ?

I'd love an official answer to this question, but my guess is that you 
can connect with both WDSC and RDi.  It depends on how IBM packaged the 
'back end' that runs on the i.  If 5733-RDI has different code than 
5722-WDS, then maybe not.