PowerHouse and the future of the HP e3000

[Witkopp, Richard]

How ironic that VMS may outlive the 3000 even though
HP controls it's fate (if the merger happens).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Whittall, Conrad [mailto:Conrad.Whittall@Cognos.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:53 PM
> To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
> Subject: PowerHouse and the future of the HP e3000
> 
> 
> Sorry about the poor formatting of the original post...MS 
> Outlook don't you
> know :-( Perhaps this will be a little easier to read...
> 
> Today's announcement from HP that it will begin advising customers to
> transition from HP e3000 servers to other HP server platforms 
> over the next
> five years might have come as a shock to some, and as a 
> long-expected move
> by others. Perhaps the most important thing to remember at 
> this time, as the
> late Douglas Adams tells us (describing what appears in big, friendly,
> letters on the cover of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the 
> Galaxy), is "Don't
> Panic!".
> 
> HP has provided a five-year plan for the HP e3000 platform. 
> This provides
> everyone with sufficient time to assess their business needs, 
> evaluate the
> many alternatives available, plan the migration to their 
> chosen replacement
> platform (or platforms), and start the actual process of 
> moving from the HP
> e3000. The HP e3000 is not going to disappear overnight...and 
> the systems in
> use today will not all suddenly stop working just because of the
> announcement from HP.
> 
> You can find full details of the HP announcement in a special 
> section of the
> HP web site, at www.hp.com/products1/mpeixservers/future/.
> 
> Cognos fully understands HP's decision and supports its 
> five-year plan for
> the continued development and support of the HP e3000 
> platform. Cognos is
> committed to protecting its customers' investments in their PowerHouse
> applications, the business rules embedded in those 
> applications, and the
> skills of their developers.
> Cognos has issued a press release confirming its intent to continue
> development until November 2003, and support until December 
> 2006, of the key
> PowerHouse products on the HP e3000 platform -- namely PowerHouse 4GL,
> PowerHouse Web and Axiant 4GL. This is entirely consistent with HP's
> announced timescales for the future development and support 
> of the HP e3000
> hardware and software. This means that the PowerHouse 
> products will be kept
> up-to-date with the equivalent product on the other 
> PowerHouse Series 8
> platforms, where necessary and/or possible, for the next two 
> years...with
> the final HP e3000 release of these products being supported 
> for a further
> three years beyond that. The PowerHouse Series 8 server products are
> currently also available on OpenVMS, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, 
> Tru64 UNIX and
> Windows 2000/NT.
> 
> Cognos will work closely with HP and its global partner 
> network to provide
> customers with a smooth migration path from the HP e3000 for their
> PowerHouse applications. The company is currently developing 
> new support
> programs that will allow customers to benefit from continued technical
> support for PowerHouse on their HP e3000 systems, together with simple
> transfers of their PowerHouse licenses to their chosen 
> replacement platform.
> 
> 
> The company is also planning new, Web-based training 
> opportunities to help
> developers learn how to migrate PowerHouse applications to 
> new environments,
> use PowerHouse tools with relational databases, and develop 
> client-server
> and Web-based applications with the PowerHouse tools.
> 
> Please visit the HP-specific area of the Cognos web site regularly, at
> www.cognos.com/hp3000, to access the latest information on 
> Cognos' plans for
> product development, support programs, and new training 
> programs to assist
> our HP e3000 customers successfully research, evaluate, plan, 
> and carry out
> a smooth migration of their PowerHouse applications from the HP e3000
> platform.
> 
> Remember. Don't panic!
> 
> Best regards,
> Conrad
> 
> Conrad Whittall
> Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools
> Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, 
> K1G 4K9, Canada
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