On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:47:29 +0100, Johnson, Tracy <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Wasn't "Interbase" on MPE before?  Wasn't it known as "Starbase"
>at one time?
>
>Weren't "Interbase" parameters in the Powerhouse
>default UDCs as late as Powerhouse Version 7?
>
>Didn't Cognos "give up" on supporting "Interbase" when they
>went to Powerhouse Version 8?
>
>Tracy M. Johnson
>TRW Automotive Electronics
>Sensors & Components

Tracy is absolutely right...InterBase has been available on MPE/iX once
before. Originally rebadged under the name PowerHouse StarBase (under an
OEM deal after the "original" InterBase Software Corporation was acquired
by Ashton-Tate) and then just as plain old InterBase (after Ashton-Tate was
acquired by Borland).

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.