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=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, STOX_REPLY_TYPE autolearn=no 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!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe21.iad.POSTED!92f42029!not-for-mail From: "Steve D" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <57Kgl.327677$Mh5.326555@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <925cad43-6435-4115-83cf-6dc9b4f20612@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <0029a4b0-d524-41cb-830c-c60fb9a35e09@p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <0029a4b0-d524-41cb-830c-c60fb9a35e09@p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: IBM Rational Ada MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18049 Message-ID: <8%Nhl.16020$3p.14278@newsfe21.iad> X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:30:28 UTC Organization: TeraNews.com Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:30:18 -0800 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4519 Date: 2009-02-02T18:30:18-08:00 List-Id: "Martin" wrote in message news:0029a4b0-d524-41cb-830c-c60fb9a35e09@p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com... >[snip] >- >> >> 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 �200 is what? Just a command line compiler? I can't speak for IBM, but the way things used to work with DEC (Digital) purchasing the media gave you access to absolutely nothing without license keys. Not even a command line compiler. I would expect the same with IBM/Rational Apex. With DEC you had to key in one of those cryptic keys that looks a lot like line noise in order for any software to be available. Those keys were often very expensive. The physical distributuion gave you disks to load from once you had the key. Regards, Steve >[snip] > >Cheers >-- Martin