It is hard to get excited about licensing. It just is, especially when dealing with the convoluted and esoteric terms and conditions drawn up by enterprise software vendors. But IBM i licensees let out a collective cheer last February when IBM dropped the fees for Rational Open Access: RPG Edition. The announcement, which was made in February, eliminated a major hurdle in the adoption of RPG OA, which will play a big role in the Web-cloud-mobile future of the IBM i platform.