PowerHouse on LINUX

[Jon Hawks]

Linux was written in Skandanavia (Sweden, Denmark, Norway?) by 
an industrious young man who actually reproduced the 
entire Unix core operating system, to go beyond the final release
Svr4, as a free variant.  It has little commercial presence, probably
because corp's don't want
mission critical app's on an OS that is not supported
by a vendor they can sue.  See the SAMS Linux Unleashed series books
(Red Hat and Slackware) for detailed info.
It was written by a young man, over a long winter.  Reminiscent of
Powerhouse, which was written in the Yukon.  It reminds me of the
coldest igloo contest, where Nanuck urinated and it froze in mid-air,
Frederick, poured out coffee that froze in mid-air, but 
Jacques, won when he unpiled four feet of furs, to uncover a little
brown thing, that when tossed into the fire for 7 minutes, when
'tttttthhhhhhhhhhht', an amazing flatulate!





---arthur kogan <akogan@westpac.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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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