From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b314a3c8f7311755 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Rational Ada Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:55:48 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0029a4b0-d524-41cb-830c-c60fb9a35e09@p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: <57Kgl.327677$Mh5.326555@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <925cad43-6435-4115-83cf-6dc9b4f20612@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.247.160 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1233395748 24798 127.0.0.1 (31 Jan 2009 09:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.247.160; posting-account=g4n69woAAACHKbpceNrvOhHWViIbdQ9G User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4504 Date: 2009-01-31T01:55:48-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 31, 3:20=A0am, Britt Snodgrass wrote: > On Jan 30, 3:24=A0pm, Martin wrote: > > > > > On Jan 30, 9:16=A0pm, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote: > > > > Well it seams from web site: =A0http://ec.synnex.com/vendors/IBM.html > > > that IBM has recall the > > > > =A0 "IBM Rational Ada Developer v.4.4 Enterprise Edition - BT01ENA" > > > > on 1/26/2009. =A0But you can still seached for that package you will = get > > > a number of web sites that have the price between $106 to $200. Just > > > like the following: > > > > From:http://www.techshopping.biz/sale/3297647/ > > > > "IBM Rational Ada Developer v.4.4 Enterprise Edition - BT01ENA" > > > =A0 $118.95 > > > > The only problem is that it was based on Ada 95 with a few extra > > > (Ada 2005 features). > > > > Now, I guess those who want this package will have to wait until and = see > > > if IBM will release an "Ada 2005 CDROM media license" version and hop= e it > > > will have a similar price. > > > There is another problem... > > > ...it's out of stock! For the price though I'd get it!- Hide quoted tex= t - > > I'm quite sure that price only gets you the physical distribution > media (CD-ROM) and maybe some printed installation instructions. IBM/ > Rational Apex requires a FLEXlm served license to run and that still > costs $$$$$ per license, minimum. So, the =A3200 is what? Just a command line compiler? > IBM would be better served if they offered a hobbyist license for Apex > or switched to an open-source, support based business model. Apex was > great for its time but IBM has treated it as a (diminishing return) > cash cow for several years, ever since they bought Rational. I fear > that Telelogic (IBM's recent acquisition) will suffer the same fate as > Rational (great products, uncompetitively priced, left to fade away). Hope not...we are heavy users of Telelogic Rhapsody... I used Apex for about 4 years and the R1000's before that - Apex was one of those "way of life" tools but rather cool once you 'got it'! Cheers -- Martin