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[Arthur Kogan]

Steve,

you are right to say that PH710F4 gives you Y2K compliance, however it does not
provide the new Y2K features. I believe that for VMS at least some of  these
have been rolled into PH710G, which should be available "pretty soon"... This
release has the value of still being version 7 (not 8) and still retains all the
VMS specific features.

Conley, Steve wrote:

> I have been holding back but in light of recent comments I thought I would
> add my own.  I have also been working with PH on the VAX since release
> 5.xx(7+ years).  I have been through many upgrades and have worked on multi
> platforms using COGNOS.  We are currently upgrading from 6.10.e1 to 7.10.f4
> in order to become Y2K compliant.  Like many other businesses we evaluated
> if we should go to 7.10.? or take the RISK and go for 8.x release.  It was
> my recommendation that we stay with the release that would get us into
> compliance at the same time exposing us to as little risk as possible with
> the upgrade.  I made this decision based on COGNOS's record with PAST base
> releases.  This is not a bash as much as it is reality.  There are not many
> BASE releases of anything that go in without startup problems and if they do
> the saying goes "that it could have been released sooner".  I always
> evaluate what does the new release provide vs staying with the release that
> is current and in compliance.  I have made recommendations to clients to go
> to base releases simply because they had more functionality going to the new
> release (such as 6.xx to 7.xx was a developers release) than they did
> staying where they were and the risk (new system vs a large already in
> production application) was just an assumed risk.  Like any new based
> product coming out you would like it to be clean but the reality is it will
> not be.  This does not change my position on COGNOS or it's product I just
> look at it a little more objectively having been through the trenches
> before.
>
> Thanks Steve Conley
> PH Consultant
>
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