Cognos coversion from mainframe to P

[Richard Witkopp]

Well, my opinion of why our HP 9000 problems aren't
resolved is that they're junk. Something different seems
to break every time. Meanwhile, our Suns that are running
a different app just keep motoring. The Sun workstation I
used to use would run for months until I would manage to
crash it. When I worked in software tech support, the HP-UX
versions always gave us more troubles than the Sun, DEC, and
even IBM AIX versions did. Not that I'm a fan of ANY Unix.

> So, to emphasize the 'inevitable' clause, if you have
> to be saddled with a Unix box, the hp 9000's are part
> of the family and part of the suggestion to
> 'consider'.
> However, I do appreciate all of us who have been
> 'vax-inated'.  I too became a fan of DEC.  I really
> enjoyed their editor's, the finest I've known.  I
> loved their simplicity and depth of technical
> lexical's and such. But, she's faced with a SUN. 
> Don't get me wrong, I like Scott Mcnealy.  It's just
> that if I were going to be looking at Unix, and I own
> an HP3000, I'd still look to the hp 9000's.  What
> seems out of focus, here, is your paradigm about the
> hp9000's.  I believe that you might have problems,
> but, I don't know why they aren't resolved.  
> 
> I once met a contractor, who managed other
> contractor's at a healthcare facility.  He would get
> people fired because they were weird.  He once accused
> me of generating printed technical documents he'd
> never seen in his life! They were header/footer
> banner's from MPEX and some from Qedit.  Since he'd
> been on hp for 9 years I thought he might have known
> what they were.  He didn't and I got accused of
> wrong-doing because he just didn't know.  And they
> thought he was an expert!  
> 
> So far, I found among our peers that the last,
> well-known system that we are experts on, is usually
> the latest and greatest technology in the industry. 
> Even when we are weird we can cite our great status by
> telling others about our technical prowess and proudly
> display our horn of honor.  
> 
> Anyway, I can only say that of the ibm 33xx, 309x,
> as/400, rs 6000, s/34, s/36, s/38, honeywell, hp, dec,
> burroughs, univac, unisys, mohawk, cdc, compaq, dell,
> ncr, amdahl, sequoia, bull, pyramid, xerox sigma vi,
> texas instrument 990, hhhhhhhhhhhhh-big breath---,
> britton-lee, vip, nec, macintosh, apple, sun, data
> general, at&t, tandem, radio shack, cascade concept,
> et al, computers that I've been on, they all start to
> look the same.  they all suck, at some point, usually
> when I'm learning them.  they all start looking
> better, when I get to know them.  they all crash.  So,
> I just wanted to let you know that since this
> week,when I spinning up on PICK, it sucks.  but, i
> believe i'll like it later.  
> 
> But, I will share this opinion with you, about a very
> important piece of gear, we need.  Shoes.  Man, I
> can't find a comfortable pair of shoes.
> 
> 
> --- Richard Witkopp <witkopp@idt.com> wrote:
> > > The last few e-mail's aside, I would consider the
> > > inevitable and think over what it would be like in
> > the
> > > new environment.  Skill sets,administrative costs,
> > > efforts, etc.  Be in the future environment and
> > > discuss this with cohorts.  Here,even. There's a
> > few
> > > good speculators that can draw the picture of this
> > > environment and put a cost figure to it.  Also,
> > you'll
> > > have think over the benefits.  
> > > 
> > > I would consider convincing the folks behind the
> > push
> > > to Unix, to consider the HP 9000 series and stay
> > with
> > > a single vendor if possible.  
> > 
> > Ugh! The HP 9000's that we've recently acquired have
> > been
> > nothing but trouble. There hasn't been a 3 week
> > period gone
> > by where they haven't crashed, broken, or otherwise
> > had
> > problems. Not to mention HP-UX is a little "weird".
> > 
> > Wishing for the good ole Vaxen days....
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