Re: The Truth About EGL

["Bob Cancilla" <bob.cancilla@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan,

I would love to respond to this and will in late January after our
announcements which will coincide with the i5/OS V6R1 announcements.  All I
can say is your point is well taken.

On Dec 19, 2007 10:53 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I hesitate to comment on how IBM prices and bundles their products, but if
> the EGL team were to receive credit (money in the bank) for every 5722WDS
> license, would that be like robbing from the ILE compiler teams to pay for
> the EGL team?  If so, I think I'd favor the credit going to the ILE compiler
> teams.
>
> Trevor, thanks for drawing Bob Cancilla into the discussion.  And Bob,
> thanks for giving us an insider's perspective, and being willing to take
> some of the flak dished back by some of us from the outside.
>
> Nathan.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:19:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] The Truth About EGL
>
>
> Joe,
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> There is just no chance this will work.
>
> Bob Cancilla has shown us this week that Rational consider RPG to be
>  dead,
> and that they consider EGL to be the strategic future for System i.
>
> You believed Bob Cancilla when he first told you EGL tools would never
>  be
> unbundled from WDS - even when everyone else predicted it would happen.
>  When
> it was, you were dismayed. Why would you trust Bob Cancilla after that?
>  And
> why would Rational go back to a bundle that they obviously are against?
>
> It appears that EGL has to be an extra charge so that Rational can make
>  some
> revenue from the existing RPG customer base.
>
> Trevor
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