Hello listers,
I'm sorry that this didn't get posted on the day of release, June 15...but I
was 38,000 feet above the Atlantic on my way to England at the time. Since
then I have not been able to access e-mail. However, I'm here now and I
think that I have some news that will please a lot of HP 3000 users...
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COGNOS® ANNOUNCES FLEXIBLE PRICING FOR POWERHOUSE® ON HP 3000 BUSINESS
SERVERS
BURLINGTON, MA, June 15, 1999 -- Cognos® (NASDAQ:COGN; TSE:CSN) today
announced the introduction of new flexible pricing for the Cognos
PowerHouse® application development tools on Hewlett-Packard company's HP
3000 line of business servers. Today's announcement reconfirms Cognos'
commitment to its application development customers and the HP 3000
platform, offering pricing that is more consistent with HP's own software
tier licensing system.
The flexible pricing will allow Cognos customers to choose the most
appropriate pricing package to suit their environments and requirements.
While current licensing is CPU-based, the new alternative pricing structure
is based on the same software tiers and maximum users-per-machine used by HP
to license the Fundamental Operating Software for its HP 3000 range, making
the process transparent and consistent for HP 3000 customers.
"We're very pleased to offer a choice of pricing to our HP 3000 customers,"
said Alan Rottenberg, Cognos senior vice president of marketing and business
strategy. "This commitment both strengthens Cognos' long-standing
relationship with HP and brings much greater flexibility in how our HP 3000
customers choose to acquire and use PowerHouse - still the most productive
business application development environment available today."
"Cognos' new flexible pricing for PowerHouse ensures that HP 3000 customers
can leverage one of the most productive business application developments
tools in a cost-effective manner", said Harry Sterling, general manager of
HP's Commercial Systems Division. "We're pleased to work with Cognos to
continue providing seamless HP 3000 enterprise solutions."
Cognos PowerHouse
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The Cognos PowerHouse family of application development tools consists of
PowerHouse 4GL, Axiant 4GL and PowerHouse Web. PowerHouse 4GL is a
server-based application development environment that enables
mission-critical business programs to be written quickly and modified
easily. Axiant 4GL provides a 32-bit Windows visual development environment
for building PowerHouse 4GL client/server (thin-client and fat-client),
server-based and mobile or standalone applications. PowerHouse Web, the
newest addition to the PowerHouse family, enables PowerHouse 4GL screens to
be deployed for access through a standard Web browser. Providing a flexible
request distribution and dynamic load balancing architecture, PowerHouse Web
enables the renowned developer productivity of PowerHouse 4GL to now be used
to build web applications that can be deployed to any of the supported
PowerHouse Series 8 platforms.
Pricing and Availability
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Pricing for PowerHouse 4GL Development starts at US$7,800 on an HP3000
Series 918 licensed for an 8-user maximum. For more detailed information on
the PowerHouse family of products, please refer to the Cognos Web site at:
http://www.cognos.com/powerhouse.
Cognos
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Founded in 1969, Cognos is a publicly traded company with offices around the
world and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. The Company develops, markets and
supports enterprise business intelligence solutions and software tools for
application development. Cognos products are available directly from Cognos
and through an extensive network of channel partners. For more information,
visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
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Cognos, the Cognos logo, and PowerHouse are registered trademarks of Cognos
Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names
are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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If you are interested in this new pricing option for PowerHouse 4GL on the
HP 3000 please contact your local Cognos sales office...not me. I will be in
Europe for the next few weeks delivering customer updates on our plans for
the application development tools and will probably not be able to get to
e-mail very often.
Best regards,
Conrad
Conrad Whittall
Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools
Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9,
Canada
Tel : + 1 (613) 738-1338 Ext.4804
Fax : + 1 (613) 228-3149
Join us at the Peabody Orlando Hotel in Orlando, Florida between
September 7 and 10 for the biggest Cognos User Conference yet. The
most up-to-date agenda, including details of the PowerHouse Web
training that will be available, can be found on our web site at:
http://www.cognos.com/enterprise99
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