Axiant classes?

[Whittall, Conrad]

Echoing Bob's sentiment, we don't want to start anything here, but as he
said...Axiant is far from dead -- just as PowerHouse is far from dead.

Current figures indicate that over 250 customers have purchased more than
just a single Axiant development workbench, and that between them they
have over 1,500 development seats. A small number have as many as 40 or
50 developers currently working with Axiant 4GL. Not bad for a product
which has really just been "finding its feet" for the past year or so.
(I am, of course, referring to Axiant 4GL 2.x here...not its predecessor,
Axiant 1.x.)

The Axiant home page on our web site, http://www.cognos.com/axiant, has
a number of stories from customers who have successfully deployed mission
critical systems built using Axiant 4GL.

Infotech Solutions in Westbrook, Maine, for example, is a company that
hadn't even used PowerHouse before adopting Axiant 4GL as their
development environment. They have built a very successful business from
scratch using Axiant 4GL to create a thin-client customer service and
billing system for the cellular, paging and PCS industry against a
PowerHouse server on HP-UX, using Sybase System 11 as their chosen RDBMS.

Other stories are from customers who have varying investments in existing
PowerHouse applications, and who have chosen to move them to new
environments using Axiant 4GL. Newfoundland Power, for example, have
migrated an existing application from a terminal based OpenVMS/VAX and
Oracle RDB environment to a thin-client Axiant 4GL, OpenVMS/Alpha and
Oracle 7 environment. They have also developed and very successfully
deployed a completely new customer service application into this
environment,
as a replacement for an existing COBOL application.

While none of these organizations mentioned by name are in the Fortune 500,
we do have others who are. Unfortunately I cannot mention them by name, yet.
I am working on getting stories from these companies, as continuing proof of
the success of the evolutionary approach to updating an application
development environment which Axiant 4GL offers -- while still delivering
the
sort of 4GL developer productivity for which PowerHouse was chosen in the
first place.

Axiant 4GL has now found its feet...version 2.03 is by far the most stable
release to-date. It can cope with the largest PowerHouse applications yet
written, and support the largest PowerHouse development shops we know of.
The
migration facilities it contains have helped numerous customers move their
existing applications into totally new environments without requiring a
complete rewrite...thus saving valuable time and resources.

Axiant 4GL 3.0 will continue to build on the strength of the current
product,
and I will ensure that everyone knows about it.

Best regards, 

Conrad 

Conrad Whittall 
Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools 
Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9,
Canada 

Tel : + 1 (613) 738-1338 Ext.4804 
Fax : + 1 (613) 228-3149

E-mail : mailto:conrad.whittall@cognos.com  

For information on the Cognos PowerHouse family of high-productivity
development tools for mission-critical business applications visit our
web site at http://www.cognos.com/powerhouse



-----Original Message-----
From: Cummings, Ken P. [mailto:KPCUMMIN@GAPAC.com]
Sent: Monday 22 March 1999 8:36 AM
To: 'Deskin, Bob'; 'PowerHouse Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Axiant classes?


How many medium to large size production systems are there in North America
using Axiant?  How many clients are using Axiant for new development?  Do
you have any statistics on the number of licences sold in 1998?

These are the sort of statistics that would convince me.  I am sure the new
version is a good product, and I'd love to believe Axiant has a future -- I
have nearly a decade of PowerHouse experience on three platforms and would
love to see a viable PC development path, but as of yet, I have not seen any
evidence that it is being used by the mainstream.  I do not know if a single
production installation, much less of one for a Fortune 500 company.

Prove me wrong.

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