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by Jens E.
Original Post: Why use MyEclipse Blue Edition?
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I‘ll let a customer say it for me (bold type added)...
"...IBM is changing their pricing model so we start to pay for our dev environment piece by piece. We will end up paying over $5000 per programmer having already paid for dev licenses a long while ago. Software maintenance contracts (BTW the most expensive on the market) are supposed to keep us abreast the latest technology, but this time, with this pricing structure change, we need to pay just as if we were a new customer, while we've been around IBM for 30 years. This is very (with capital, underline, bold, blinking characters please) FRUSTRATING. We actually feel betrayed by whom we gave all of our confidence for years...Currently, my rep is battling with IBM to get a special bid for RAD, but let's get logical: at $149/year MyEclipse Blue is ridiculously affordable. Why this huge step in value while both RAD and MyEclipse deliver the same (at least mostly) thing... is [IBM] trying to make big money with fewer customers? Could [they] maybe make more with cheaper products with a broader customer community? I believe so.
IBM is completely disconnected from the SMB's reality where we have to make miracles with a pair of hinges and a knife. MyEclipse is definitively appearing like our only solution."
Incidentally, this particular customer is also in the System i arena, fitting perfectly with our prior announcement of our partnership with Databorough.
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