Re: [foxboro] Fear & Loathing in Las Vega$

Greetings,

I thought I would chime in here and give my impressions of the User's
Group  meeting.

The first day, I came away very disappointed by all the Microsoft talk.

The second day, I came away extremely disappointed because of the
LACK of Allen-Bradley talk.  It's like Foxboro has never heard of them!

The third day was VERY enjoyable.  Great keynote speaker!!!  Great
entertainment and dinner!!!  And resolution to the fact that I ordered
a third party solution for the Allen-Bradley gateway.  It's called Matrikon.
I have tried to stay away from third party solutions from the beginning, but
we have been asking three year now for an improved A-B gateway,
and they are not even contemplating it.  Their loss.

Also, Mr. Eva assured us that UNIX is NOT dead.  It is merely loosing
their software development push when ArchestrA takes over.  It will
still be supported, like CP10's and AP20's.  You just won't be able to
use the new stuff on it!

I must admit I was impressed with the new configuration tool (whatever
it is called???)

All in all, I enjoyed the get-together's with people from all parts of the
Earth, as I do every year.  That is the biggest benefit to me.

Life is good when you put it all into perspective!

Glen Bounds
Sr. Control Systems Engineer
Corn Products International, Inc.
4501 Overdale Rd.
Winston Salem, NC   27107
336.785.8826 (office)
336.785.8809 (fax)
email - gbounds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


----- Original Message -----
> 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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