Re: IBM Rational Ada

[Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@bredband.net>]

Talk about getting nostalgic.

The old R1000:s I think they where the best development tool ever 
produced but there was some serous drawbacks:
* Price
* Performance
* Only one language
They were awfully slow I recall some system builds that required serious 
planing, 1 week setup 4 weeks to compile and 1 week cleanup. To build a 
similar sized system today takes about 10 minutes a budget desktop machine.
/Nostalgic
/Per -:)




Martin wrote:
> On Jan 31, 3:20 am, Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 30, 3:24 pm, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 30, 9:16 pm, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote:
>>>> Well it seams from web site:  http://ec.synnex.com/vendors/IBM.html
>>>> that IBM has recall the
>>>>   "IBM Rational Ada Developer v.4.4 Enterprise Edition - BT01ENA"
>>>> on 1/26/2009.  But 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"
>>>>   $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 hope 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 text -
>> 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?
> 
> 
>> 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