My manager contacted Cognos about the FOS-based licenses and he was told
that we could not have it as it was meant for new customers or customers
upgrading their systems only. This seems to conflict with the paragraph
below that mentions a trade-in credit.

Has anyone else tried to switch?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conrad Whittall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 1:22 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: upgrade fees - Cognos
>
>
> Sorry that it has taken me a little while to respond to this
> thread...I've
> been at the latest HP e3000 Worldwide Reseller Conference and
> access to
> e-mail wasn't too good.
>
> I get the feeling that quite a number of people in the 3000
> community are
> still unaware of the new licensing options that we at Cognos
> introduced for
> the PowerHouse software on June 15 last year (the press
> release can be read
> on the Cognos web site, at http://www.cognos.com/news/rel_227.html).
>
> This new model enables the PowerHouse software to be licensed
> based on the
> HP-defined software tier for the machine (option 310, 330 or
> 340) and the
> number of users for which the MPE/iX software is licensed. So, for
> example, the full-development version of PowerHouse for an HP
> e3000 Series
> 918 (option 310) licensed for 8 users costs only $7,800
> (compared with over
> $12,000 under the still-available CPU-based pricing, which is
> for unlimited
> users).
>
> The new PowerHouse licensing model also gives you total flexibility to
> upgrade your hardware within the HP-defined software tier, so
> long as the
> number of users licensed for the upgraded machine remains as
> before. In
> such cases there is only a small administration fee (of
> around $750) due to
> Cognos for the issue of new Software Enable Keys and the
> updating of our
> customer records.
>
> So, for example, if you purchased one of these new PowerHouse
> FOS-based
> licenses (as we have called them, due to their link with the
> way in which
> the FOS itself is licensed) for the 8-user Series 918
> mentioned above, and
> later upgraded to a Series 928 still with an 8-user license,
> only the $750
> admin fee would be due to Cognos. The same applies had it
> been a 64-user
> 939KS being upgraded to a 64-user 979KS (which has just been
> reclassified as
> an option 330 machine, in-line with HP's recently announced change).
>
> For customers who have currently supported CPU-based
> PowerHouse licenses
> (which is the majority), Cognos is offering trade-in credits for these
> licenses against new FOS-based licenses. If you are interested please
> contact your local PowerHouse account manager.
>
> Another pieces of news (that I'm still working on the press
> release for)
> is that the native HP e3000 version of PowerHouse Web is now
> available,
> together with PowerHouse 4GL 8.29 which includes new capabilities for
> developing web-based applications. Currently supported
> PowerHouse 4GL full
> development customers can request the new version by
> contacting their local
> PowerHouse account manager or Cognos Customer Support. Trial
> versions of
> PowerHouse Web are also available, which can work with Web
> servers on the HP
> e3000 (Apache), as well as on UNIX or Windows NT...all
> passing the incoming
> user requests to PowerHouse Web on the 3000 for processing.
>
> Finally, Cognos are also currently offering discounts of up
> to 40% on both
> new licenses and upgrades during HP's e-Tools promotion.
> Details for this
> can be found in the coupon booklet sent out to all North
> American HP e3000
> customers over the past few weeks, or on the Cognos web site at
> http://www.cognos.com/etools/. The new FOS-based licenses
> have already made
> the HP e3000 the most cost-effective platform on which to run
> PowerHouse --
> and the e-Tools promotion makes a good deal into an unmissable deal.
>
> Best regards,
> Conrad
>
> Conrad Whittall
> Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
> 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9, Canada
>
> Web site: http://www.cognos.com/hp3000
>