Continued Support of PowerHouse

[Bob Deskin]

Maybe this is where those "rumors" I've been hearing are coming from. 

Darren is correct. This refers to the HPe3000-MPE/iX version ONLY. Why? 
Because HP is ending all support as well. When HP announced the end of the 
HPe2000 in 2001, they gave it 5 years to end of life. We continued to 
produce versions for the MPE/iX platform including features specifically 
aimed at MPE/iX as well as at customers who wanted to migrate. Support for 
Eloquence comes to mind. When HP extended their support timeline, we 
extended ours. When HP said that the end of 2010 would be the end of 
support, we made that our end of support. Note that this is direct 
development support the MPE/iX platform. It has nothing to do with any 
other platform.

As for the other platforms, we have continually released versions with 
updated conformance, maintenance fixes, and new features. The 8.4xD 
version was released in 2004. Since then we have released 8.4xD1 in 2005, 
8.4xE in 2007, 8.4xF in 2009, and our latest, 8.4xG in March 2010. And 
we're hard at work on the next version.

Bob

Note that these comments are mine and not IBM's. They simply state 
publicly available facts.



From:   John Maclerran <macljohn at isu.edu>
To:     powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Date:   2010-07-26 06:18 PM
Subject:        Continued Support of PowerHouse
Sent by:        powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=ca.ibm.com at lists.sowder.com



Dear PowerHouse List

In a recent HP3000-related news post, at:
http://3000newswire.blogs.com/3000_newswire/2010/07/speedware-portfolio-gains-powerhouse-tool.html


This was reported:
"For more than two decades in the 3000 market, Speedware and Cognos 
competed for business in what were called Fourth Generation Languages. But 
the companies took very different development routes once HP announced its 
exit from the marketplace. Cognos last released a major version of 
PowerHouse in 2004 with the 8.4 release. The company was purchased by IBM 
in 2008, and the Automated Development Tools group accounts for a small 
fraction of Cognos sales today. Cognos announced it will end active 
support for PowerHouse on Dec. 31."

Has anyone here heard about this?  Can anyone confirm or deny the part in 
italics?

-- 
John MacLerran, IT Analyst, Senior (macljohn at isu.edu)
Idaho State University -- Leading in opportunity and innovation
(208)282-2954
http://picasaweb.google.com/jmaclerran
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