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Cognos Application Development Tools: Product Roadmap 2005 Update

This is an update to the Product Roadmap issued in early 2004 and communicates our current direction for Cognos Application Development Tools. Cognos will provide an additional update in early 2006.

Continued Maintenance Releases

As part of our commitment to PowerHouse and to support your investment, we will continue to provide maintenance releases for supported platforms. 2004 saw a major enhancement and conformance release in the 8.4Dx/3.4D version. This year there will be a maintenance release, 8.4xD1/3.4D1.

Conformance
We will continue to investigate new operating system and relational database versions for inclusion in each maintenance release. For example, the 8.4xD1/3.4D1 maintenance release includes support for Oracle 9i (9.2) on OpenVMS, and Oracle 10g and DB2 8.2 on UNIX and Windows. We endeavor to build on the operating system version immediately previous to the currently available version. For the 8.4xD1/3.4D1 maintenance release, this means that we are building on OpenVMS 7.2, AIX 5L 5.1, and Windows 2000. As always, the latest Supported Environments document is available from the Cognos Support web site.

Vintage Support for PowerHouse on HP OpenVMS VAX and IBM OS/400

As noted in last year's roadmap, PowerHouse 4GL and PowerHouse Web on HP OpenVMS VAX and HP Tru64, and PowerHouse 4GL on IBM OS/400 have been matured. Due to customer demand we will provide Vintage support for PowerHouse 4GL and PowerHouse Web on HP OpenVMS VAX, and PowerHouse 4GL on IBM OS/400. Vintage support is support provided after a product is matured on a specific platform. Vintage support is provided because not all customers can migrate to another platform within the PowerHouse maturity time frame. In some cases there are legal requirements for PowerHouse to be supported. Cognos is providing Vintage support so that these customers can plan for an orderly migration to another platform. Vintage support provides the following services: Customers may continue to log cases with Customer Support. Customers may continue to use the Customer Support Knowledge Base via the Internet. Cognos will make every effort to satisfy the customers technical problem given the restrictions of Vintage Support.

 Cognos will attempt to provide a workaround solution. Vintage support has the following restrictions: Cognos will not provide any additional versions of the product. Cognos will not provide any additional hot site releases, rolling bug fixes (RBFs), or maintenance releases (MRs). Cognos cannot guarantee the compatibility of PowerHouse 4GL or PowerHouse Web on any future releases of the operating system beyond the release certified for the version of PowerHouse 4GL and PowerHouse Web current at the maturation date.

The HPe3000 MPE/iX Platform

As previously announced, and consistent with Hewlett-Packards announcement, PowerHouse 4GL and PowerHouse Web on HPe3000-MPE/iX will be matured as of Dec 31, 2006. Cognos will provide full support for PowerHouse 4GL and PowerHouse Web on HPe3000-MPE/iX, including all maintenance releases and new versions if any, until December 31, 2006, when development support will end. We encourage our MPE/iX customers to migrate their PowerHouse applications to one of the other supported platforms. To assist in the migration planning, we will be publishing an MPE/iX Migration Planning Guide in the first half of 2005. Because we know that not all of our MPE/iX customers will be able to migrate by the end of 2006, we will make extended case-logging support available to those customers who need it until December 31, 2007.

New Platforms
We currently have no plans to port PowerHouse to new platforms. This includes HP-UX and OpenVMS on Itanium as well as Linux. We have not seen a sufficient customer demand to warrant a new port. We constantly review the market as well as customer requests in order to react to significant changes. Any change in our porting plans will be included in the next Roadmap update. Sincerely,

Robert Berry Director, Customer Operations Cognos Inc.

Cognos Application Development Tools Supported Products

This table lists the currently supported Cognos Application Development Tools products and, where applicable, their mature status dates. Mature status is the date on which development support (bug fixes and code changes of any kind) ends. Product versions include maintenance releases (MRs). For example, an entry for version 8.49D includes any maintenance releases based on 8.49D such as 8.49D1. Any fixes are made in the latest maintenance release. Vintage support is available for selected products after the maturity date and is denoted by a V after the date. Extended case-logging support is available for selected products and is denoted by an E after the date. Supported operating system and database versions are listed in the Supported Environments document that is available from the Cognos Support web site.
Platform MPE/iX (HP e3000) Product and Version (including MRs) PowerHouse 4GL 8.49D & Web 8.49D PowerHouse 4GL 8.49C & Web 2.49C PowerHouse 4GL 8.39C PowerHouse 4GL 8.29D & Web 2.29D OpenVMS (HP VAX) OpenVMS (HP AlphaServer) PowerHouse 4GL 8.30D PowerHouse 4GL 8.20D & Web 2.20D PowerHouse 4GL 8.40D & Web 8.40D PowerHouse 4GL 8.40C & Web 2.40C PowerHouse 4GL 8.30D PowerHouse 4GL 8.20D & Web 2.20D HP-UX (HP 9000) PowerHouse 4GL 8.43D & Web 8.43D PowerHouse 4GL 8.43C & Web 2.43C PowerHouse 4GL 8.23D & Web 2.23D PowerHouse 4GL 8.13D AIX (IBM RS/6000 & pSeries) PowerHouse 4GL 8.43D & Web 8.43D PowerHouse 4GL 8.43C & Web 2.43C PowerHouse 4GL 8.23D & Web 2.23D PowerHouse 4GL 8.13D Solaris (Sun SPARC) PowerHouse 4GL 8.43D & Web 8.43D PowerHouse 4GL 8.43C & Web 2.43C PowerHouse 4GL 8.23D & Web 2.23D PowerHouse 4GL 8.13D Mature Status Date Where Applicable December 31, 2006 (E) July 31, 2004 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005 (V) February 28, 2005 (V) Fully supported July 31, 2004 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005 Fully supported July 31, 2004 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005 Fully supported July 31, 2004 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005 Fully supported July 31, 2004 February 28, 2005 February 29, 2005
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Platform Tru64 UNIX (HP AlphaServer)

Product and Version (including MRs) PowerHouse 4GL 8.43D PowerHouse 4GL 8.43C & Web 2.43C PowerHouse 4GL 8.23D & Web 2.23D PowerHouse 4GL 8.13D

Mature Status Date Where Applicable February 28, 2005 July 31, 2004 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005 (V) Fully supported July 31, 2004 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005 Fully supported July 31, 2004 February 28, 2005 February 28, 2005

OS/400 (IBM AS/400 & iSeries) Microsoft Windows

PowerHouse 6.07F PowerHouse 4GL 8.41D & Web 8.41D PowerHouse 4GL 8.41C & Web 2.41C PowerHouse 4GL 8.21D & Web 2.21D PowerHouse 4GL 8.11D

Microsoft Windows

Axiant 4GL 3.4D Axiant 4GL 3.4 Axiant 4GL 3.1 Axiant 4GL 3.0