Cognos and Speedware Announcement

[Gordon, Kevin]

"Double" - if only.
 

Kevin Gordon
Sea Containers


 

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From: powerh-l-bounces+kevin.gordon=seacontainers.com at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+kevin.gordon=seacontainers.com at lists.sowder.com
] On Behalf Of Ken Langendock
Sent: 20 December 2006 02:00
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Cognos and Speedware Announcement


SAP...give me a break, 
Double whatever $ estimate somebody comes up with and then fire the
senior exec who endorsed the project to pay for the last minutes add ons
that nobody was told about.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Luan Ha [mailto:lha at bigpond.net.au] 
Sent: December 19, 2006 6:59 PM
To: Ken at Langendock.com; 'Robert Edis'; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Cognos and Speedware Announcement



I have to agree with Ken as our recent experience with Cognos supports
has been quite acceptable.

Let hope they continue as we're not intend to move away from Powerhouse
to ERP (SAP) easily.

 

Luan

 

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From: powerh-l-bounces+lha=bigpond.net.au at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+lha=bigpond.net.au at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf
Of Ken Langendock
Sent: Wednesday, 20 December 2006 8:02 AM
To: 'Robert Edis'; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Cognos and Speedware Announcement

 

Ah, without saying too much.......I can say definitely NOT TRUE to
numbers 5, 7 and I assume 11 by association

Stay tuned

Ken

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com] On
Behalf Of Robert Edis
Sent: December 19, 2006 5:38 PM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: Re:Cognos and Speedware Announcement


The demise of PowerHouse 

1. ADT income no longer included in share holder reports 
2. ADT tools dissapear from product list on Cognos website 
3. ADT tools no longer mentioned by sales people 
4. ADT tools no longer included in conference presentations 
5. Dramatic slow down in development/enhancements/new features 
6. Deal made with Speedware, once only mentioned by Cognos in
disparaging terms, to support ADT tools.  Speedware advertising in past
put down PowerHouse and encourages Cognos customers to port PH apps to
"modern" tools (i.e. Java). 

My prediction: 
7. Development/enhancement work on PH stopped completely by Cognos 
8. Cognos and Speedware announce deal where Cognos sells PowerHouse to
Speedware. 
9. Speedware takes over support (taking a few of the youngest and most
promising ADT developers from Cognos to boot) and license income. 
10. Speedware induces PH customers to "modenise" their PH apps by
offering special deals and perhaps increasing annual license fees on PH.

11. PowerHouse RIP 

Am I just a cynical pessimist?  Does it matter? 

Blue  


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