Axiant classes?

[Cummings, Ken P.]

Well THAT sounds like much more encouraging news.

I stand corrected.

> ----------
> From: 	Whittall, Conrad[SMTP:Conrad.Whittall@Cognos.COM]
> Sent: 	Monday, March 22, 1999 12:27 PM
> To: 	'POWERH-L@lists.swau.edu'
> Subject: 	RE: Axiant classes?
> 
> 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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