PowerHouse on LINUX

[arthur kogan]

Hi Conrad and Happy New Year to you.

I think it would be useful if someone who knows about it, would explain what
LINUX is. I assume it is some sort of cheap UNIX type operating system, but that
is where my knowledge about it ends.

What are the benefits of LINUX, is it just the price? What are the deficiencies,
if any? What hardware does it run on? What products can you run on LINUX, e.g.
databases?

Regards,

Arthur Kogan
Westpac Financial Services
Sydney, Australia

Whittall, Conrad wrote:

> Happy New Year everyone!
>
> I thought that subject line might catch your attention :-)
>
> As there has been a lot of talk in the industry about the rise of the LINUX
> operating system (including a few threads on this list), I'd like to take a
> straw poll amongst those frequenting the list to help us gauge how much
> demand there might be for PowerHouse 4GL (and PowerHouse Web) on LINUX.
>
> If you already have LINUX, or if you are seriously considering using LINUX,
> I'd greatly appreciate if you could spare a few moments to reply to this
> e-mail (preferably directly to me at conrad.whittall@cognos.com, leaving
> PowerHouse for LINUX somewhere in subject field) and answer the following
> questions.
>
> 1) Do you currently have LINUX?
>
> 2) If so, how long have you had it?
>
> 3) If not, how soon do you expect to obtain it?
>
> 4) Which LINUX distribution do you (intend to) use, e.g. RedHat, S.u.S.E.,
> Caldera, etc. ?
>
> 5) What hardware do you (intend to) run it on, e.g. Intel, Sparc, Alpha,
> etc. ?
>
> 6) Which relational database(s) do you (intend to) use, e.g. Oracle,
> Informix, InterBase, etc. ?
>
> 7) Which web server, if any, do you (intend to) use, e.g. Apache, Netscape,
> etc. ?
>
> 8) How many developers do you think would use PowerHouse on LINUX at your
> installation?
>
> 9) How many users do you think would access your PowerHouse applications on
> LINUX?
>
> 10) Would you use PowerHouse on LINUX as a replacement for existing
> PowerHouse servers, in addition to existing PowerHouse servers, or for a
> completely new PowerHouse installation?
>
> 11) If you would be replacing or supplementing existing PowerHouse servers,
> which operating system do you currently use, e.g. MPE/iX, MPE/V,
> OpenVMS/VAX, OpenVMS/Alpha, HP-UX, AIX, etc. ?
>
> Obviously, I can't promise anything at this stage. However, depending on how
> many replies we get to this (and other research we are conducting), it will
> certainly help us to determine whether there is sufficient demand for
> porting the PowerHouse products to this dynamic up-and-coming platform.
>
> Thanks in advance for all of your help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Conrad
>
> Conrad Whittall
> Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools
> Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9, Canada
>
> E-mail : conrad.whittall@cognos.com
> Tel : + 1 (613) 738-1338 Ext.4804
> Fax : + 1 (613) 228-3149
>
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