PowerSaurus

[Cindy Lomas]

Bob,

Speaking of Powerhouse Web, how's it coming. Is there a release date yet? I
am anxiously awaiting info on this product.

Cindy Lomas

At 09:38 AM 3/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Now I have to respond and will probably start a new "war". Let's not start
>the "PowerHouse is dead" thing again. PowerHouse is not on the way out. We
>can argue about the price and I'll agree that PowerHouse is more expensive
>than anything free. We can argue about how much Cognos charges for the
>product and for support. But the bottom line is productivity. How much is
>your time worth? Is there something as productive as PowerHouse for free?
>PowerHouse is still one of the most, if not the most, productive tools
>available for creating business systems on mid-range systems. If you want to
>re-write your systems in Java, go ahead. But please let us all know how much
>time it takes compared to the time it would have taken using PowerHouse. 
>
>And don't tell me that PowerHouse can't evolve and change. I'm the Product
>Manager for PowerHouse Web and I know better. We did client/server and now
>we're doing the web. I've seen more jaws drop when I create a working web
>application screen and form with 4 lines of code (SCREEN, FILE, GEN, BUILD).
>Sure PowerHouse is old, but that doesn't mean it's not still great. Look at
>our symbol - the Concorde. 30 year old technology that's still world class -
>just like PowerHouse.
>
>And I never get off my PowerHouse soapbox.
>
>Now let's get back to solving problems.
>
>Bob Deskin              
>Senior Product Advisor, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
>bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
>3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mao@krifapost.dk [mailto:mao@krifapost.dk]
>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 9:19 AM
>To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: MANUALS
>
>
>The only think I want to blame our friend who asked the QUIZ quistions
>is to start using Power House at all. We live in ´99 and everybody knows
>that Powersaurus  is on the way out like a lot of other giants these days.
>Today you can get loads of programming tools (ex. Java ) and other
>stuff (ex. Linux) for free or at least at very low expense. We need to face
>the fact that the world around us is changing, and we need to change
>as well. We have 1500 - 2000 programs (Cobol and PH) and we are
>starting all over again because we often ran into problems and limitations
>and spend a lot of time "workin´ around". We still need to run the stuff
>for at least 1 or 2 years but we want to follow whats going on in the real
>world.
>
>Mikael Olesen/Denmark
>(My opinion not my employers)
>
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