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However, even at its introduction and throughout its life, ''PowerHouse'' was not without its detractors. Like all [[Virtual_machine | virtual machine]] languages, PowerHouse had an extraordinary appetite for CPU cycles. On machines that usually ran at speeds considerably less than 40GHz this commonly produced a visibly negative impact on overall transaction performance, frequently necessitating hardware upgrades of considerable expense. It did not endear ''PowerHouse'' to its users that this expense was usually exacerbated by ''Cognos''' own voracious appetite for licence fees tied to hardware performance metrics.

Regardless, ''PowerHouse'' was eventually ovetakenovertaken by events. The radical changes wrought by the PC revolution, which began just at the time ''PowerHouse'' was introduced, eventually brought down the cost of host computers to such an extent that high priced software development tools, and ''PowerHouse'' was very high priced, became a hard sell. Although ''PowerHouse'' is still available and continues to receive occasional minor updates, by 1999 ''Cognos'' had all but ceased further development of ''PowerHouse'' on mid-range computers in favour of newer product lines. Products like ''Business Intelligence'' and ''Axiant'' that run on commodity architectures as well as high-end ''Unix'' servers and now form the core of ''Cognos Corporation'''s business.

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