FYI
Thanx,
Jon Backus
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Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 8:28 PM
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Cc: Whittall, Conrad
Subject: RE: PA-RISC Emulator (WAS: Questionnaire results)
Jon,
First, allow me to introduce myself. I am Burton Leathers and have
recently joined the ADT team as architect.
Since you ask a question about a hypothetical matter, it warrants a
hypothetical answer. A PA-RISC emulator must, to deserve the name, be
indistinguishable from a PA-RISC system. It should, therefore, be
possible to run ADT products without any change on any such emulator.
The practical question is whether Cognos would support a system used in
such a setting. That would depend very much upon whether the emulator
was certified as being valid. So long as Cognos supports the ADT
products on a PA-RISC system then users should be able to use an
emulator. (I pointedly ignore details such as licensing.) However, any
problem reported on an emulator would also have to be reproducible on a
PA-RISC system.
That said, if there turns out to be a significant uptake of PA-RISC
emulation by existing customers, there would have to be a
reconsideration of whether "non-reproducible" bugs would be addressed,
i.e. whether the emulator would be treated as a separate, supported
platform. Let's wait to see how the future unfolds.
Burton Leathers
Software Architect
Cognos Incorporated
-----Original Message-----
From: Whittall, Conrad [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 7:28 PM
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Subject: PA-RISC Emulator (WAS: Questionnaire results)
Hello Jon,
Unfortunately I've not been involved with the management of the ADT
business for a couple of years now (although I keep my hand in with
designing and building new internal -- and hopefully external -- PHWeb
apps from time to time). Therefore the question of whether Cognos will
consider supporting the ADT products on a PA-RISC emulator is something
that I can't really comment on. Perhaps someone else might be able to
let us know where this topic currently stands.
Best regards,
Conrad
Conrad Whittall
Solutions Architect, Global Customer Services
Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9,
Canada
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan M. Backus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 8 May 2003 14:53
To: 'Whittall, Conrad'; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Questionaire results
Conrad,
Can you tell us were Cognos stands on supporting a 'PA-RISC'
emulator that would allow the "true" MPE operating system, complete with
Image and all other sub-systems, to continue to run on non-HP3000
hardware?
Thanx,
Jon Backus
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