Same thing here at another shop.  The only exception is that the in-house
powerhouse people were better than the Cognos people.  There were still occations
where I had to write something in Transact that they couldn't do in powerhouse.
Just to be fair though, powerhouse could pop out those simple little reports just
a little bit faster than I could write them in Transact. (not much faster, but
fast enough that I wouldn't even mess with the small stuff.)  And, those reports
would be neatly formatted.  Is that worth huge prices when it come time to
upgrades? ..... No, but that is my opinion.

Kevin

Cecile Chi wrote:

> In a message dated 5/24/00 1:25:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
> writes:
>
> << For those dissatisfied with COGNOS, You should try HP Transact.
>  Advantages are:
>
>  1.  It will (probably) be around as long as the 3000.
>  2.  Easy to learn.
>  3.  Supports Image, VPlus and the 3000 dictionary.
>  4.  Reasonably priced.
>  5. Supported by HP.
>  6.  Not a machine hog, any more than Cobol is.
>   >>
> And, I might add, can do things Cognos can't.  I've written Transact programs
> to handle the stuff they couldn't do in Powerhouse, at Powerhouse shops,
> even when they had hired consultants from Cognos.
>
> Cecile Chi
>
> P.S. Transact is a WHOLE lot cheaper, and much easier on the HP3000
> resources.  If you're going to rewrite, may as well do it right.