Sounds like this is what forced a certain application vendor in 1996 to
"force" HP3000 customers to move to the HP9000 or Alpha platform because
their Cognos based application used Interbase.

A hearty Homer Simpson: "Doh!" is called for.

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics
Sensors & Components

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conrad Whittall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> InterBase 3.3 was the last version available on MPE/iX.
> Basically Borland
> dropped MPE as a supported platform, as they also did with
> OpenVMS/VAX at
> the 3.3 level and OpenVMS/Alpha at 4.0 -- was well as a
> number of other
> platforms -- to concentrate on Windows and a few UNIX
> platforms, targetting
> InterBase at solutions providers and the embedded database
> market rather
> than at "end-user" customers. Since Cognos were simply an InterBase
> reseller there wasn't a whole lot that we could do about it.
>
> PowerHouse 7.29 was the last version on MPE/iX to support InterBase,
> although the 8.1x and 8.2x versions of PowerHouse still
> support InterBase
> on platforms where the database itself is available (such as HP-UX,
> Solaris, Windows NT, etc.)
>
> Cognos declined to renew its reseller agreement with
> Borland/Inprise for
> InterBase when the existing agreement expired earlier this year.
>
> Best regards,
> Conrad
>
> Conrad Whittall
> Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
>