Cognos coversion from mainframe to PC

[Charles Lewis]

Walter,

I had the same puzzling experience. For reasons I will not elaborate on in
this post, we are migrating from Powerhouse to a UNIFACE/Oracle solution and
due to my Powerhouse background, I assumed that I would need to have an
Oracle license for each user, whether they were actively hitting the
database, or just sitting there looking at a screen. And, of course, the
Oracle rep did not try to correct my understanding. As you know Oracle
licensing schemes are costly, so this was not going to be financially
feasible for us.

However, I found out from the enterprise solution vendor that a concurrent
licenses refers to the number of simultaneous hits to the database, so for
our institution (about 20-30 users) we would only need about 8 licenses. Any
hits that exceed this license limit get stuck in a queue to wait for the
next available slot. If things bog down too much, you just add another
license. I could be totally wrong in this but this is how it was explained
to me.

chas

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Charles Lewis
Director of Administrative Computer Services
Southwestern Adventist University
PO Box 567
Keene, TX 76059

Phone: (817) 645-3921 #220
Fax: (817) 556-4744
Email: lewisc@swau.edu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Lucas <whl3@nwths.com>
To: 'POWERH-L@LISTS.SWAU.EDU' <POWERH-L@lists.swau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 1:27 PM
Subject: Cognos coversion from mainframe to PC


> Hey guys,
>
>
> I'm new to the list, so let me introduce myself.
>
> My name is Walter Lucas, and I'm a mainframe Cognos programmer working on
a
> HP-3000 900 series using MPE.  My office mate and I have been at this for
> 15 years now, but times are a-changin'.
>
> What we are currently looking at is migrating our homegrown applications
> from the HP onto the NT platform.  We pretty much settled on Oracle as a
> database generator, but we keep getting confusing answers as to what
Oracle
> we need and how many licenses.
>
> What I need to find out is if there is anyone in the group who has made
> such a conversion and how you determined which version of Oracle to use
(or
> Sequel or other DB).  Did you have to license each user even though they
> were not using Oracle, but accessing a database through Cognos?
>
> There is much confusion here on this last question because we have bought
> packages for the hospital coded in C or C+ that use Access and DBase
> databases, but we were not required to buy Access or Dbase to use them.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated, even a pointer in the right direction.
>  Also, I'll gladly offer more information as required.
>
> Thanks
>
> Walter Lucas
> Applications Programmer
> Northwest Texas Healthcare Systems
> Amarillo, Texas
> < WHL3@NWTHS.COM >
>
>
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