[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-21 16:29:38 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:04:07 -0400, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> On 2012-08-21 14:38:34 +0000, Paul Sture said:
>> 
>>> (I have a feeling the latest version of XCode costs, but it's a nominal
>>> amount, not hundreds of bucks).
>> 
>> Xcode 4.4.1 (current) is free.
>> <http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12>
> 
> Thanks for the correction.  Xcode 4.0 was $4.99 for just a few months,
> for folks not subscribed to the $99 per year version of the Developer
> program.

Apple could well have used that $5 price to reduce the numbers of 
tire-kickers, at least until the online Xcode App Store distribution 
processes and kits got sorted out.

Xcode was included on the OS X installer DVD distros for many years, 
but Xcode and the rest of the tool chain was (and is) revised 
sufficiently often that the copy included on the installer DVD was (is) 
stale.  And the DVD installers ended with the Lion 10.7 release and the 
use of online distribution.

There are two developer programs available from Apple.  $99 for OS X, 
and $99 for iOS.  The features and benefits are discussed at the Apple 
developer web site.  (These prices are down substantially; a few years 
ago, the OS X developer program was $499 per year.)

Given this is comp.os.vms, the OpenVMS analog is the AllianceONE 
program (formerly DSPP), and there are some definite differences among 
the program offerings from Apple and from HP.  There are two tiers 
within AllianceONE (and this is fairly well buried in some of the 
AllianceONE web pages): there are individual, and company members.

And given there are some Windows folks around the group, Microsoft has 
MSDN, BizSpark and a few other licensing programs.  And yes, there are 
program differences.  No, I don't know what those program differences 
are; not in any appreciable detail.


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