Cognos' future support for Interbase?

[Chris Sharman]

>Hi there,
>My client has recently become uneasy about Cognos' support for
>Interbase on AXP/OpenVMS in the near future. The fact that Cognos has
>dropped the support of Interbase for VAX/OpenVMS (ie, version 4 of
>Interbase won't be produced for VAX) has make them even more nervous.
>To enable them to make strategic decision, they need to know and at
>least have an indication on where things are heading. 

The future of VMS & the future of VAX are completely separate.
VAX was superseded by Alpha some years ago, and there's now very little reason
that I can think of for anyone to go out & buy a VAX: Alpha's much better,
cheaper, faster, and runs VMS - the migration's quite painless.

There's not a big market for new software on old iron, so the VAX architecture
doesn't really merit a lot of development effort from anyone any more, and you
shouldn't be surprised if it gets dropped, neither should you read anything
into it about Alpha/VMS.

The future of VMS is the same issue it's always been, with proponents telling
you it'll be going for a long time yet, and opponents claiming it's dead and
buried: it's a fruitless debate of opinions rather than facts, and as such
better kept off lists/newsgroups, so I'll not volunteer my opinion.
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Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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