FW: Is Powerhouse expanding in India

[Ken Langendock]

Let me rant....
 
Personally I think if PH is going to survive the following needs to take
place.
 
a) Since Cognos controls the licensing;
Promote a single developer version with ISAM only access for free.
If the developer wants a different database licence, charge $49.00 for each
one.
This would create an opportunity for developers to create/market PH
products, thus creating revenue for Cognos thru third party sales.
Training could be distributed in manual/instructional video form. Again this
should be bundled into the development product as Oracle does.
 
b) The most important thing would be something NEW
Maybe Some kind of "controllable/", HTML code generator from the compiler,
similar to how access statements get generated into cursor statements. If we
are not happy with the way the automatic one works, we can create our own.
If we could create copy modules that would generate the correct HTML syntax
to make the, for example, screen headers work/look as they do in Quick, this
would cut a lot of code down.
Function key statements that create proper HTML code, etc.
 
The list can go on and on, but the point is, we need a way of converting our
existing quick screens into fancy/schmancy html screens automatically. I for
one am not looking at converting 2000+ quick screens into HTML without some
"automatic" help.
 
 
c) There needs to be something to make people think that a 4GL is better
than a crappy 3GL with a browser front end, and don't get me started on that
other "coffee" product.
 
....end of rant
 
Ken
 
 
 
 
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From: Joe Boyle [mailto:atla38 at dsl.pipex.com] 
Sent: June 5, 2007 5:58 PM
To: 'Ken Langendock'; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Is Powerhouse expanding in India



 I think PH is failing ( read dead) because PowerHouse is so expensive -
especially training - all of the MS .net related software can be downloaded
for free - I have MSSQLserver, C#, C++, VB and it did,nt cost me a penny. 

When I tried to purchase PH software (for NT platforms only), Cognos
wouldn't sell it me as an individual ( and that, after I worked on the
Cognos support desk for 5 years) with 12 years of PH on VMS, MPE, Unix and
Dos collectively.

 

 
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