Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!cognos!nigelc From: nigelc@cognos.UUCP (Nigel Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: UNIX databases on AS/400 Keywords: UNIX OS/400 AS/400 ORACLE PROGRESS Message-ID: <8428@cognos.UUCP> Date: 31 May 90 19:15:19 GMT References: <230@eliza.edvvie.at> Reply-To: nigelc@cognos.UUCP (Nigel Campbell) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 24 In article jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes: >johnny@edvvie.at (Johann Schweigl/104857600) writes: > >>the IBM AS/400 midrange system > >The AS/400 is only a "midrange system" in IBM's marketing hype. To >the rest of us it's just the AS/400. If it needs futher adjectives >"incompatible" and "underpowered" spring to mind. > But it does seem to be selling rather well for an underpowered incompatible box thats why Cognos has ported Powerhouse to it . In fact a senior As/400 marketing member who now works for us gave a presentation of the shear number of boxes they are shipping .. pretty impressive and lucrative . -- Nigel Campbell Voice: (613) 783-6828 P.O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated FAX: (613) 738-0002 3755 Riverside Dr. uucp: nigelc@cognos.uucp || uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!nigelc Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K1G 3Z4