Re: RDi Licence Terms -- WDSCI-L

Just a note of clarification.
There are 3 types of licenses.
The most common and useful is Authorized User which is the $1180 up front
and 20$ SWMA for a named user to use on any number of devices
There is also floating licenses which is concurrent access to an instance
of the product, more expensive and might make sense if you have concurrent
users around the world or a large number who only use it some of the time
Finally there is this one year license for $980. This is only useful for
a one shot deal and I wish it would go away because it causes so much
confusion. Unfortunately the web site sorts the cheapest as the default
option to present but it is not the most economical.
I am raising this up with our product offering team again.
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Edmund Reinhardt
905-413-3125
IBM Canada Ltd Rational Developer for i Access Client Solutions
Architect
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----- Original message -----
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
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Cc: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi Licence Terms
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2020 12:59 PM

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:41 AM Brian Parkins
<goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've gone as far as the Checkout and I get:
>
> "IBM Rational Developer for i — IBM Rational Developer for i
> License Type: Authorized User
> 1 license
> Billing term: Annual
> Subscription Term: 12 months
> $1,180.00 USD per year"
>
> Which would lead one to assume the cost /is/ 1,180 USD every year.
IMHO,
> either very poor wording, (putting folk off) or a change in T&C's,
> (putting folk off). Hopefully I'll be corrected.

It's extremely poor wording. I'm confident it's just those first 12
months which are charged at $1180 per year. The "renewable support" is
surely less in subsequent months.

IBM is by now notorious for employing confusing and misleading
language, at least when it comes to materials other than technical
manuals.

It definitely *feels* as though IBM likes to make their pricing obtuse
in order to give BPs <strike>a reason to exist</strike> opportunities
to provide value to customers.

John Y.
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