Cognos coversion from mainframe to P

[Jon Hawks]

This is notable.
I enjoyed the workstations and their reliability.  The
SUN networking scheme is something to applaud when you
have the network infrastructure to support them.  
I'm sorry to hear the hp's have failed you.  But, they
aren't infallible.  We sometimes need to hear sobering
evidence that our one of our favored platforms, didn't
play well.  HP, DEC, DG, IBM have been our mainstays. 

Since, I have not programmed on a SUN, except in
PASCAL, I can't speak to the full experience.  I defer
to yours until evidence overcomes the view.

--- Richard Witkopp <witkopp@idt.com> wrote:
> 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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