Richard Gambrell writes:

>Someone could develop a PH emulator, but that would incur all the same legal
>challenges.  For conversion to Cobol, at least for quick, I would expect you
>would need emulator functions that would amount to the same legal problems as
>any other type of emulator.  Quiz and QTP, I would guess, could be converted
>much more easily.

Cognos's legal position, explained to me in no uncertain terms, is that
they own every line of source code ever written in a Powerhouse language.
So even if some such emulator or converter appeared by magic, Powerhouse
licensees would still need Cognos's permission to use it -- because even
though you wrote the code, Cognos owns it.

-- Bruce


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