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.
Matt White 
Same here. That’s the problem with IBM stuff, it’s all aimed at corporate types with dev. depts that can spend this money. What about independent coders who just want to learn the stuff? I’m not a contractor or anything, but even I’m in this position. Recently d’loaded the WSAD trial: no idea whether it’s time-restricted, but is that an option for learning this stuff?
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