PowerHouse DEAD

[Edis, Robert]

Well at least in its 'twilight' time.  It seems that even other 4GL products
such as Progress, Forte (which once looked very promising), etc., unless
they are explicitly tied to a database or application package such as
SAP/Abap, PeopleSoft/PeopleTools, Oracle/Forms, etc., are waning.

The world is fast moving to be dominated by only two major development
technologies - .NET (well actually VB) and J2EE.  NEITHER of which is as
good as PH in terms of rapid development, data access and robustness.
Nevertheless as long as CIO's, magazines and fortune tellers like Gartner
know of nothing else then that's the way it will be.

Can't someone from Cognos tell us why there is no interest in ADT at the
Technical Forum or the User Days?  
Why haven't we seen any of the ADT tools advertised in trade magazines?
Why is ADT revenue not mentioned in the Cognos financial reports to
investors? (I'm one)
Why doesn't Cognos create an active and productive relationship with the
developer community as Microsoft and Sun have done?
How come there are no leading edge business packages available built with
Cognos ADT tools?  (Cognos IS developing such packages with the BI tools).

I must ask these questions as a developer of, user of and investor in Cognos
tools.  I do not want to disparage the efforts of good people like Bob
Deskin, Conrad Whithall, Christina Hasse, Etc.  They are sincere and really
want to make the ADT tools not only work well but be generally accepted as
economic, efficient and worthwhile development products.  These questions
must really go to the senior decision makers at Cognos.

In the meantime I'm betting my future on data warehousing and SQL Server.  

Blue

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Heatherington [mailto:kent.heatherington@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 11:24 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: PowerHouse DEAD


Agreed Bob.  I'm out in B.C. at one of the few remaining shops. We just
advertised for a 1 month contract PH resource.  I could'nt believe the
quantity and quality of applicants, most out of work for at least a year,
and again most with 10-20 years experience. 
Again, most having retrained in Web technologies, but not finding work
either.  It was pretty scary.

And the attitude with this client is why should I ever look at another
Cognos product when they dropped us on the PowerHouse product line (for
example 8.10 with no Open/VMS features !).

AGreed its dead. 

Kent Heatherington


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