Re: SGI files for chapter 11

Malcolm Dunnett wrote:

In article <44618088.A6B0A64F@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Customers care about software availability.
Software makers care about potential market for a platform and its viability.

To make platform grow and look viable to software vendors, you need the
OS on a chip whose future isn't in question, and a platform which is
heavility marketed by the owner and where there is competition to keep
prices low.

True. I'm sure the constant "changing of horses" frustrates the software
vendors.

I have had an Itanium VMS system for about a year and a half now, but I
still can't do anything very useful on it, due to the lack of an Oracle
client (supposed to be out next month, we'll see if that really happens ) and
a lack of the availability of Powerhouse on Itanium ( and the last I heard
Cognos didn't sound like they were seriously considering porting to
Itanium ).

If you or your company are suitably positioned, offer to fund Cognos's
porting effort in return for a suitable cut of the subsequent licensing
fees to recoup the investment. One way that partnerships are born.

--
David J Dachtera
dba DJE Systems
http://www.djesys.com/

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