upgrade

one of the obvious things to come out of lotusphere was that there is no choice
but to learn
websphere if i wan tto continue using ibm software. i had been putting it
off, consoling myself with picking up visual studio .net and domino 6.5, but
now i have to bite the bullet.

a problem for me is that a single license for ws costs over gbp2,500 which is,
frankly, ridiculous. a couple of years ago i had the deve
loperworks toolbox but then last year they put the price up to over
gbp2,000 for a renewal. i noticed this morning that the price has come down
again. the basic package starts at gbp360 and includes all the lotus software i
would need, but for a ws 5.1.1 server and wsad package i am looking at around
gbp1,200. still a lot of money, i am going to have to think about this for a
while.