PowerHouse Web (Was PowerSaurus)

[Deskin, Bob]

I'll take this one. I'm the PowerHouse Web Product Manager. PowerHouse Web
will be released on OpenVMS VAX and Alpha. Also on NT, UNIX (HP-UX is first
but not last), and MPE/iX. The OpenVMS version should go to beta next week
and we're planning release for late May/early June (he said hopefully). I
gather you'll be using Digital UNIX. It's further down the list and probably
won't be out until the summer.

PowerHouse Web is very flexible and very distributed. For example, you can
have your Web Server on an NT machine connected to a Alpha box. You would
use the PHCGI program from the NT version of PowerHouse Web to connect to
the rest of the PowerHouse Web components on the Alpha box. 

PowerHouse Web "code" is the same as PowerHouse "code". There are a few new
keywords like HTML, CHECKBOX, RADIOBUTTON, LINKSCREEN, and so on. Things we
need to make a web application work. While you could take an existing
application and "port" it to the web, you probably want to design the
application for the web. Because the web is stateless, applications are
different. You don't have the same prompt and response dialog as with
"green-screen" terminals. Nor do you have subscreens. You move from screen
to screen (or form to form) using a LINKSCREEN. The data that you pass must
exist on the passing form, rather than in the passing screen. And you can't
pass files in the same way.

The reason for some of the restrictions are based on the way the web works.
Check out the PowerHouse Web White Paper at www.cognos.com/phweb.

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: Cindy Lomas [mailto:clomas@milk.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 2:44 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Re: PowerHouse Web (Was PowerSaurus)


Conrad,

I am a little confused as to which platform release we fall into. We are
currently using Powerhouse on an Alpha OpenVMS platform. We are purchasing
another Alpha box with Unix that we will use for Web development using
Oracle.

1. Will we be able to convert our existing Powerhouse code to Powerhouse
Web? If so, what, if any additional software will we need (some sort of
translation software?) So, can we convert our existing Powerhouse programs
to Powerhouse Web on the OpenVMS platform and then migrate to the Unix
Oracle server?

2. What release of Powerhouse Web will we fall into. I hope its not the
last one, 'depending on customer demand'.  

Cindy Lomas

At 11:56 AM 3/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Good morning/afternoon/evening listers,
>
>Sorry for not having jumped in to answer some of those product direction
>questions which have been asked over the past few days. I've been in
>Philadelphia at our worldwide sales kickoff, presenting details of our
>upcoming Application Development Tools releases to our sales reps, techies,
>and partners. Let me tell
>you, everyone in the company is very excited about the future of the
>PowerHouse product family...and PowerHouse Web is simply going to make
>PowerHouse 4GL the most productive language available for developing
>data-driven business applications for the Web.
>
>I will post more details of our product strategy and upcoming releases
later
>today or tomorrow, but until then I can confirm that PowerHouse Web for
>HP-UX and Windows NT is now in second round beta and scheduled for release
>around late April or early May. The OpenVMS version should be ready for
beta
>around the middle of next week, with the MPE/iX version following a few
>weeks later.
>
>The first versions of PowerHouse Web to be released will be 2.23 for HP-UX
>and 2.21 for Windows NT, due in late April or early May. Version 2.20 for
>OpenVMS should follow a few weeks after that, and 2.29 for MPE/iX should be
>available in June. The other UNIX platforms will be phased over this
period,
>based on customer demand.
>
>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
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cindy Lomas [mailto:clomas@milk.org]
>Sent: Thursday 11 March 1999 11:08 AM
>To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: RE: PowerSaurus
>
>
>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
>
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