Re: IBM Rational Ada

[Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>]

On Jan 31, 3:55 am, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> On Jan 31, 3:20 am, Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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...
>

Yes, we also use Telelogic Rhapsody and DOORS and like them pretty
well.  I was not happy to hear that IBM had acquired Telelogic. I am
particularly disappointed in the way IBM has treated its ClearCase
configuration management product that it acquired with the purchase of
Rational. ClearCase is architecturally brilliant and well implemented.
Its also rather cool to use once you’ve “got it”.

However, ClearCase licenses are expensive and my company is rapidly
switching all new and most existing projects to the “free” Subversion
open-source CM tool. Subversion isn’t nearly as capable (in my
opinion) but its arguably good enough.  IBM apparently would rather
lose all ClearCase customers before it would consider lowering the
price on a mature product to a few $$$ per license per year.

- Britt