Nigel Campbell of Cognos "Business Intelligence" plaintively asks:
>Could someone describe (in as much technical detail as possible) what
>Suprtool might be doing internally to maxmise read performance when
>going against Image datasets on an MPE/iX machine? If this is online
>somewhere at a web or ftp site that would be fine. cheers.
/* Flame on. */
Why not find some pretext and sue Robelle to get their source code?
Doesn't Cognos always turn to their lawyers when their engineers fail?
Nigel's question, especially coming from someone who bills himself as
"business intelligence," is particularly pathetic. This stuff has been
around for _years_, freely available in the HP 3000 community, some
of it written by Suprtool's authors. It's here on the net, it's in
HP 3000 publications, it's discussed at user groups, and it's published
in papers and proceedings. Perhaps Robelle have techniques to get the
last few percent that they're not telling about; if so, they're quite
entitled to keep the results of their years of trial-and-error testing
of inspired guesses and clever deductions to themselves. Of course,
unlike Cognos, they're engineers first, which means they'll probably
tell you if you ask -- if they haven't already published it somewhere.
Don't worry, Cognos: in all likelihood, someone will spoon-feed you
the information you're looking for. I suppose that it _is_ getting
rather hard to find someone there who has the innovative spirit to
do the research themselves -- heaven forbid they should actually
come up with something new. Why not turn to the person who wrote
QUIZP? Or has he/she gone off to some company where creativity is
actually valued? (Perhaps they were laid off because they refused
to get a law degree.)
Would it be too much to ask for you to put some of your extortionate
upgrade fees into R&D -- with emphasis on the R, for a change? And
to share some of that R with the rest of the community, as smaller
developers have done for nearly two decades? Or has Cognos finally
adopted the American way? -- I want it all, I want it free, and I want
it now, and if I don't get it I'll sue.
/* Flame off. */
-- Bruce Toback
OPT, Inc.
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