Re: RDi 9.5 announcement

[Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought the same thing... My bill for 3-year maintenance on  RDi with the RPG/Cobol toolset was $2040.  We have 2 licenses purchased in June of 2014 @ $965 each.

That comes out to just over 35% annual maintenance, and you get technical support that is always in "callback" mode.  Pretty steep.  Hey, wait a minute - I could just buy it every 3 years and save some money!

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 12:45 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.5 announcement

Greg, just curious - which kind of license do you have for which this is 
the maintenance? List on the fixed license is about 1100, so this would 
be just over 30%, and that seems a lot.

On 9/2/2015 8:02 AM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
> Annual maintenance is $340/year if you get 3 years at a time.  So one way or another, you are still paying for it.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Taylor
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 8:55 AM
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.5 announcement
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> That I can handle.  If it was $$$, that'd be a lot more work.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 4:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.5 announcement
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> Justin
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> If you are on support, you don't have to buy it again - but you'll need to get the activation kit and do a new install - maybe over existing workspace, maybe not, maybe need to export from old, import to new.
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> Vern