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BM Announces WDSc 7.0 with New Lean and Mean Install

by Chris Maxcer , News Editor

February 27, 2007 -Bucking the trend of releasing development tools that require increasing levels of memory and high-end PC processors to simply run, IBM has finally offered the PDM and SEU killer version of WebSphere Developer Studio Client (WDSc) for the System i.

“With this release, everyone using PDM and SEU should start using WDSc version 7,” says Kou-Mei Lui, IBM’s marketing manager for WDSc and System i development tools.

The key reason, IBM says, is that you can selectively install a lean and mean version that can run on only 256 MB of memory. IBM previewed a rudimentary version of this feature early last year at COMMON in Minneapolis, calling it WDSc Lite. Attendees at that event indicated a lot of interest in using the lightweight WDSc, leading IBM to an even better version now.

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