Re: [foxboro] Fear & Loathing in Las Vega$
- From: Mike Morgan <mike.morgan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:02:34 -0500
David:
When you refered to " NEW ICC demo " what were you refering to?
Thanks,
Mike Morgan
-----Original Message-----
From: drjohn@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:drjohn@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:44 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [foxboro] Fear & Loathing in Las Vega$
Greetings from sin city,
DAM! (Hoover) nearby! Very impressive.
Well here's the skinny after two action packed days of meetings.
1) Las Vegas does not have bare breasted women in Lido headdresses wandering
through the casinos.
2) I am down $15.50, which sucks.
3) Unix is dead.
Some of you might want to know a bit more about that last one, so here goes.
Foxboro (Invensys Process Systems) has made it clear that the LONG term
direction is to incorporate the ArchestrA (sic) [ar-'k&s-tr&] platform to be
the basis for the engineering toolset. The objective is to roll all of the
Invensys family's engineering configuration tools into one new common tool
that
will let you configure anything from TRICONEX to I/A and perhaps a few third
party vendors as well. ArchestrA (sic) is a windows only solution, but the
ICC
driver is not going to go away (hooray for us). In a nutshell, the Unix
based
configuration tools have a limited lifetime. They say that you will have
client-server access to the engineering database over Micro$oft .NET (sic)
technology to be able to use multiple workstations to configure the
database.
I would like to discuss Mark Davidson's presentation, but it was all
proprietary information. FoxView/FoxDraw (sic) will get at least one more
functional upgrade (FoxView 8(sic) is coming), but they intend to roll
WonderWare (sic) and FoxView (sic) into a single visualization package using
ArchestrA (sic) as the driving force at a later date. NT is definately the
AP/AW/WP platform of choice for the future and the Unix enhancements are, it
appears to me, a stop gap measure until Archestra is in place.
I have looked at the NEW ICC demo and I can say that, I don't hate it.
Which
is pretty good coming from me. I think that Invensys IPS, aka Foxboro, has
a
good idea. I am hopeful that they don't fumble the implementation, and we
get
a better, more usable, control configuration tool that everyone is happy
with.
No other signifcant news from the front. Winston Jenks wants to know what
you
think about this, and what questions you might have. Reply to the
listserver
quick, cause after tomorrow morning we will not have an opportunity to quiz
the
Foxboro suits about this.
Regards,
David "What the hell is a YO bet?" Johnson
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