I last used Cognos version 7 years ago and then was working on Business Objects XI R3. Now I need to compare these to run on Oracle, DB2 and Teradata.To my technical mind, I am more inclined to Cognos as it gives more control both for the technically minded report creator to run and also for the administrators to limit what a user can or can't do with the systemOn the other hand, Business Objects, especially it's web intelligence aspect makes it easy for extremely technophobic business users to create sufficiently complex reports.As far as the database interaction, I haven't...