[HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos

[Dolliver, Joe]

5 Billion ? Small ? A relative term

I wonder if the currency was Canadian, then it would be a large deal.





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From: powerh-l-bounces+dolliverj=calvertnet.k12.md.us at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+dolliverj=calvertnet.k12.md.us at lists.sowder.com] On
Behalf Of Charles Finley
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:23 PM
To: 'Peter Bateman'; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos

The Powerhouse business is a relatively small part of Cognos when compared
with the BI assets.  Therefore, from a purely practical point if view, it is
not entirely obvious that the part of IBM that purchased the company care as
much about Powerhouse.  

 

That said, the saving grace is that IBM does not seem to "pull the plug" on
any software product that produces recurring revenue.  My guess is that they
will do what they have done with Informix.  They keep supporting it but they
do not enhance it much.  At the same time they offer substantial migration
paths to other IBM offerings.  What I mean is that they offer a comprehensive
solution including tools and services to help customers change to some
product and technologies that IBM considers sustainable in the current
software markets.

 

Charles Finley

619-795-0720

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From: powerh-l-bounces+cfinley=xformix.com at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+cfinley=xformix.com at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of
Peter Bateman
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:09 AM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos

 

Hi 
 
   Given what Cognos has done recently to make PowerHouse
   more IBM friendly ( re-instating Informix as a supported
   database and adding DB2 functions to the AIX version)
   I doubt that IBM wants to pull the plug on PowerHouse.
 
Regards,
Peter
 
 

> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:46:33 -0600
> From: guy.werry at hbms.ca
> To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty hard to say, isn't it? I'm sure that IBM has a 
> glut of development tools ... They're buying Cognos for the BI 
> products, for sure.
> Sadly, yet another Canadian corporation being swallowed up by a 
> foreigner ...
> 
> Mind you, quite a success story: from a smallish consulting company 
> with an in-house report writer to a 5 billion company in about 30 
> years? Not too shabby.
> 
> Guy L. Werry
> Senior Systems Analyst
> Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-bounces+guy.werry=hbms.ca at lists.sowder.com
> [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+guy.werry=hbms.ca at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf 
> Of Ken Langendock
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:36 AM
> To: 'David Morrison - Corporate'; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos
> 
> Or does this mean the Final knife to kill Powerhouse?
> I'm not liking this.
> 
> 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 David Morrison - Corporate
> Sent: November 12, 2007 10:21 AM
> To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos
> 
> Thanks, Robert; I hadn't heard about the deal.
> 
> We are fully 10 years behind in PH versioning (PH607F), so it would be 
> great to get caught up on many of the features implemented in the last 
> decade!
> 
> David Morrison
> McBride Electric, Inc.
> 858-450-1414 ext. 4211
> DMorrison at McBrideElectric.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-bounces+dmorrison=mcbrideelectric.com at lists.sowder.com
> [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+dmorrison=mcbrideelectric.com at lists.sowder.co
> m]
> On Behalf Of Robert Mills
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:09 AM
> To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
> Subject: FW: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos
> 
> Maybe those on the AS/400 and iSeries platforms may now get a more 
> current version?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Robert W.Mills
> Business Systems Development Analyst
> Group Information Systems & Technology Pinnacle Arvato
> DDI: +44 (0)20 8309 3604
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:HP3000-L at RAVEN.UTC.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Bob Schlosser
> Sent: 12 November 2007 14:52
> To: HP3000-L at RAVEN.UTC.EDU
> Subject: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos
> 
> Link to article about $5B purchase of Cognos by IBM
> 
> http://apnews.excite.com/article/20071112/D8SS5SS00.html
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