Support venues

[Deskin, Bob]

Hi Robert. I'm probably biased. Forget it, I am biased. But I think the
conference is well worth while. And I say that regardless of the BI or
ADT slant. The BI stuff is worth it even for the PowerHouse old-timers.
And although there may be lots more BI customers than ADT, we still have
lots to offer. There will be two streams dedicated to 4GL products. The
focus will be Year 2000 and migration to Axiant, but there's lots of
other things as well. Also, we'll be demoing PowerHouse Web publicly for
the first time. There will be a session dedicated to it as well.
PowerHouse may be old but it still has plenty of legs as PowerHouse Web
shows. Here's a 4GL that made the transition from terminal to
client/server (in 2 forms - PowerHouse Client and Axiant), and now does
the Web.

So the potential to learn about what's here and what's coming is
invaluable. For PowerHouse consultants, I would expect a gathering of
potential customers would be well worth while. But I'm not a consultant
and I don't know how these things work.

Just my two-cents worth.

Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Advisor  bob.deskin@cognos.com
Cognos Inc.             (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


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> From: 	EDISR@detroitedison.com[SMTP:EDISR@detroitedison.com]
> Sent: 	Monday, May 18, 1998 9:41 AM
> To: 	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: 	Support venues
> 
> G'day all 
>  
> I'd like to hear people's opinions about various support/learning
> venues to 
> Cognos tools.  What do you think about the International User Group
> conference 
> in Atlanta and the annual regional conferences around at least the
> USA? 
> Does 
> the former give you a good return on your investment (time, money)?
> Do you 
> believe to cost is acceptable?   
>  
> I am a contract employee.  Due to my tax status in the USA I cannot
> claim
> the 
> cost of attending these conferences as a tax deduction.  At the same
> time my 
> management believes Cognos tools to be 'old technology' and therefore
> a
> waste 
> of time and money to send me there.  I'd like to hear how others deal
> with 
> this. 
>  
> Do you think that the conferences have become too BI oriented and
> leave us
> ADT 
> folks out in the cold?  Should there be separate conferences or in
> fact
> should 
> we come up with a new, more efficient and cost effective information
> exchange 
> medium? 
>  
> I look forward to some lively response. 
>  
>  
> Robert Edis (Blue) 
> Technical Consultant 
> Michigan, USA 
> (VAX/VMS, ORACLE Rdb, PowerHouse 4GL)
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