Steve

Since I am a data warehouse developer , why do you think BI and  OLAP would never catch on.  I had my first data warehouse project in 1993.  BI has its own use, mostly for forecast and statistic analysis.  I do not use Analysis Service, I build my data warehouse in SQL Server using Star schema. The DTS tool is one of the best (cheap) tool to extract data.

Do you want me to write an article about it (how I did it in 1993 when there was no BI tool around?)