'Course, as my old buddy Michael would always point out to me:

What the he.. do I know, eh?

 8~)


John M  Penney
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State of Washington
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> ----------
> From:         Ted Ashton[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Ted Ashton
> Sent:         Wednesday, May 24, 2000 12:11 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Help !!! with alternate Cognos
>
> Thus it was written in the epistle of Jon Temple,
> > I know, I didn't think there was and discussion anymore about
> > Powerhouse vs Speedware anymore. Kind of a no brainer how technically
> > superior Speedware is. I'm at a shop know where they are stuck with
> > Cognos.
> >
> > We're just looking for a way to bail out of Powerhouse because of
> > financial treatment of us.  They seem not to care and if you know the
> > company, you'd be shocked.
>
> I am often amused to discover that something which is very obvious to one
> person is considered not true by another :-).  If I've read this
> discussion
> correctly, Cognos and Speedware are both incredibly superior to the other,
> Cognos and COBOL are likewise mutually superior and Transact beats both
> COBOL and Cognos except that it's about the same as COBOL and can't hold a
> candle to Cognos :-).
>
> The only agreement is that Cognos is terribly priced (except that they can
> be made to see the light (and, if I hear correctly, have provided user
> pricing
> which is a lot cheaper)) and that Speedware, which is much cheaper, is
> priced
> about the same.
>
> Anyone else confused or is it just me?  Appears that a lot of us have
> finally
> gotten into the pasture with the greener grass and we're still in
> different
> pastures :-).
>
> Ted
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