Axiant cost?

[Richard Witkopp]

I don't have to teach our end users quiz, they already know it.
Rather than your analogy, it's more like driving the 70's car
to the end of the block, vs. teaching them to ride a 90's
motorcycle. While you or I might get a bigger thrill out of
riding the motorcycle, they already know how to drive the car,
and couldn't care less about the thrill as long as they get to
the end of the block.

If you're bucking for a piece of the commission on this sale,
you can relax, because it looks like we'll do neither and say
farewell to Cognos entirely.

> This is not the point I was making. Sure, you can teach end 
> users to use Quiz. I have done this myself. But to me the 
> situation is similar to the difference between driving a 
> 1970s car and driving a 1990s car. Sure, you can drive the 
> 1970s car and (because it is relatively simpler under the 
> hood) you can probably twick it to get more out of it, but in 
> all fairness, would you not rather be driving a 1990s model 
> with all the extra convenient gadgets as standard equipment? 
> That is unless there is a compeling reason not to (I gave 
> examples of such reasons in my previous mail).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arthur Kogan
> Westpac Financial Services
> Sydney, Australia
> 
> My views are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views 
> of my employer.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tracy Johnson [SMTP:tmj@primenet.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 19 May 1999 5:17 AM
> To:	Richard Witkopp
> Cc:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject:	RE: Axiant cost?
> 
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Richard Witkopp wrote:
> 
> > I would disagree with you. Our end users have been programming
> > their own quiz for years, and Cognos even offers (or did) a quiz
> > for end users class.
> 
> In response to someone who earlier said:
> > > I think that there is an element of missing the point here, 
> > > in comparing
> > > quiz to Impromptu. Quiz is not exactly an end-user 
> reporting tool !
> 
> Not only that, but Quiz WAS marketed as an "end-user" report 
> writer up to
> and including version 5.xx.  (Anyone remember the tutorial?)
> 
> Tracy Johnson
> "Trust No One" - Semper Gumby
> 
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