PH on Linux

[Whittall, Conrad]

It has not escaped our attention that a number of software vendors have
recently announced that they will migrate their products to the Linux
operating system.

The question for us, as for all software vendors, is "Is there a good
business case for making our products available on this platform?". Is it
possible to recoup the costs of migrating, testing, packaging and supporting
the products on Linux -- let alone make a profit from it? Oracle have
obviously decided that it is, and I will be very interested to see their
product pricing and support policies for the Linux market when they
eventually ship their products.

So far we have been approached by very few customers (or prospective
customers) inquiring about the availability of PowerHouse on Linux. Part of
this may be due to the lack of leading relational databases on the platform.
And if we were to port PowerHouse and PowerHouse Web to Linux which variant
should it be -- Red Hat Linux, OpenLinux, Slackware, Debian GNU/Linux,
S.u.S.E. Linux, or one of the other Linux products? While binary
incompatibilities between these variants may be rare that is little comfort
to a customer experiencing problems on OpenLinux if we have only built and
tested our products on Red Hat Linux.

We will continue to monitor the Linux situation closely. Meanwhile, there
are currently a number of versions of PowerHouse which run on Intel-based
servers -- under operating systems such as SCO OpenServer, DG/UX, and
Windows NT Server.

Best regards,

Conrad

Conrad Whittall
Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools
Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9, Canada

E-mail : conrad.whittall@cognos.com
Tel : + 1 (613) 738-1338 Ext.4804
Fax : + 1 (613) 228-3149

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