Cognos coversion from mainframe to PC

[Jon Hawks]

Nicely, Nicely.  
I have to agree with sense.
Sky Masterson

--- "Robert J.M. Edis" <robert.edis@creatcomp.com>
wrote:
> G'day all
> 
> As no other VMS fan has said anything in response to
> John's comments on the
> HP/MPE platform, I will.
> 
> I have the fortune of working on HP/MPE, HP/UNIX and
> OpenVMS.  OpenVMS has
> the records to prove it is more reliable, especially
> on a VAX, than HP/MPE.
> At the site where I am writing this, there exists
> all three of the above
> environments.  The HP/MPE box is the LEAST reliable
> of the three and goes
> down whenever the airconditioning fluctuates.
> 
> OpenVMS is a considerably more user friendly
> environment than either MPE or
> UNIX.
> 
> OpenVMS will work on 2 different CPU architectures
> at the moment and maybe
> more in the future.
> 
> RMS, a very good and fast indexed file management
> system also comes free
> with OpenVMS.
> 
> I don't know about the price advantage of HP/MPE but
> I suspect John is right
> there.  Unfortunately, Compaq does not price its
> OpenVMS systems competitive
> with Windows NT or I believe even the HP offerings.
> 
> Of course none of this helps the original
> questioner.  If their management
> says it should be Windows NT/Oracle 8 then they wont
> have much say in the
> matter and just have to make the best of it.
> 
> There is a lot of work to be done to migrate the
> non-relational PH code to a
> relational DBMS environment and I wish them luck.
> 
> End of tirade! ;)
> 
> Blue
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