Re: [foxboro] Fear & Loathing in Las Vega$
- From: "Moss, Bruce B EQUILON" <gbmoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:44:02 -0500
David,
Thanks for the news. Hope you hit the big jackpot!
Any mention if the AIM*Historian and Suite of products will be
incorproated with the ArchestrA rollout. I think Wonderware uses "Industrial
SQL" for its historian.
Will both be supported?
Thanks.
G. Bruce Moss
Equilon Enterprises-( WICS)
Westhollow Instrumentation & Control Systems Group
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: drjohn@xxxxxxxxxx [SMTP: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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