Interbase Support

[KHeathe673@aol.com]

Here I go again (about to be flamed by Bob D...)

 re: the end of Interbase Support.

In 1993, I was on contract to the Department of Correctional Services Canada,
and was invited
to attend a 1/2 day session with our local Cognos Marketing Rep, and several
Senior Marketing
and Development Managers from Cognos NHQ. (I will  not name names).

After enduring yet another BI Demo of Impromptu, we finally reached the agenda
item, which I
was interested in, as we were over 1 year into a development effort, building
a Materiel Mgt
system for our federal jails, involving 6 alpha systems over Canada, and about
60 jails.

We asked: "What was the future of Interbase, now that Borland had purchased
the Interbase product.

The gist of the presentation, was to inform us that Borland had no intention
of supporting Interbase on Open/VMS. They, BORLAND, considered this a dead
operating system.  Their plans were for
NT and Unix only. Version 4 would not be supported under any other
environment.

The senior Cognos folk , then went on to suggest that we begin planning to
move to either Oracle or Sysbase soon . That was their advice and strong
urging to a major client. In 1993 !

I am certain Cognos have been saying this for some time.  So nobody out there
ought to be surprised
or shocked !

Of course, the fact that we did not have a PowerHouse product which supported
Oracle access (barring Axiant sort of 1.2 (did that ever work !)until
recently, certainly has constrained any porting efforts hasnt it !.
What were we supposed to do in 1994,1995,1996 and most of 1997 ?

Thus I don't see this as a marketing issue/technical management disagreement
over at Riverside.
The writing has been on the wall, and very clear for some time.

Kent Heatherington

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