PH on Linux

[Hans-Ole Kaae]

Hi,

This is exactly the kernel of the problem IMHO:

What Cognos could consider, is the long-term benefit of offering PowerHouse
on Linux at a low price. If your company policy is that every effort done
must pay off immediately - or within a very short timeframe, you are
blocking yourself from letting more customers in. Not the - after all pretty
few - that buys a SOLUTION plus whatever hardware, OS and 4GL this solution
needs, but I mean really new markets.

The VB example is very good, and so is the MS-Office offer for students,
where you get the complete package for next to nothing, it's exactly the
same business, paying off later. Lots of other success-stories available.

You could consider PH for Linux a "starter platform". Maybe you don't want
to build your production on this set-up - but you could develop and mature
new applications here - and when ready, port all the stuff to your favourite
platform like UNIX or MPE. Since developing new applications is so costly a
business, fairly priced OS's and development tools are needed. Even demoes
would be far easier - without those annoying temporary keys (and their
expiration!).

We recently did a large port from MPE/iX and Image/SQL to SUN Solaris and
Oracle. It was tough, admitted, but we came thru and in fact with far less
problems and resource-consumption than initially expected, thank you
Cognos - and going from LinUX to UNIX should be pretty straightforward so
the porting business should not block such a project.

But, if the good folks at Cognos really want new markets for the classic
platforms, which are, as I read it, having great come-backs these days -
this could be one of many obvious ways to go.

With kind regards

Hans-Ole Kaae

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu
>> [mailto:owner-powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu]On Behalf Of Robert J.M. Edis
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 6:00 PM
>> To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
>> Subject: RE: PH on Linux
>>
>>
>> Hi Conrad
>>
>> Thanks for your input to this discussion on PH and Linux.
>>
>> 		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.
>>
>> 		Oracle, Sybase - who else do you need?
>>
>Snip.


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