Future, what future for PowerHouse

[KHeathe673@aol.com]

I cannot resist this recent tirade re: Price of PowerHouse and Cognos
direction with Powerhouse.

I would suggest we stop pondering about the future of PowerHouse as we all
know there is not one.
We are not happy about it, but there it is. Here is this observers musings:

Consider:

1. What marketing Cognos does with PowerHouse 
	You can pick up any trade rag and find BI advertisements but not PowerHouse

2. Consider Axiant
	Yikes! A barely functional VB3 look alike.
	Marketing ? (forget it )
	Clients using this product? (on Headhunter.net there are 65 PowerHouse Jobs,
Axiant 0)
	
3. Consider what Cognos is saying ?
	Sure for the sake of existing customers, they will sing a song of revitalized
PowerHouse 8.
	Have you heard of a company in the last 3 years, which when faced with
developing a new 
	application, went out and bought PowerHouse cold !
	Did you buy the line about Interbase and pay for all that training out of
your own pocket ?
	Where's interbase support !
	
4. Fewer and fewer companies are building applications. ERP heard of it ?

5. Machine line support now gone as of PowerHouse 8.  One development group,
one product line.
   Despite HP for example, recognizing there is a future to HP3000 (see their
WEB site for new pricing etc...)
   Cognos is backing away from machine specific support or initiatives. (are
all you VAX users happy about 
   losing PHD in version 8?)

6. What is the next generation of geeks learning ?   (Microsoft, PowerBuilder,
Oracle, Java....) 

So in conclusion I would suggest we all stop whining and dreaming like a bunch
of old farts, (I'm certainly one)
reminising about what a great technical feat the Spitfire was (or the Mustang
for my U.S. friends), and quickly retrain
in what we know is being used in modern application development.

They can give Axiant away, and you still won't find a client to work for.  I
live in Ottawa, Canada, where Cognos's HQ 
is, and I can assure you the sites doing anything with PowerHouse are dropping
like flies.  The Government of Canada
is tossing millions of development effort away to streak to SAP and other ERP
packages as fast as they can for
Financial,Materiel Management and Human Resources. So if you can't sell your
product in your own home town,
how can any of be convinced there is a future to this product. 

There is'nt !

Kent Heatherington
(likely in trouble with my past Cognos co-workers now !)
kheathe673@aol.com
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