Re: [foxboro] Fear & Loathing in Las Vega$
- From: "joen" <joen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:26:15 -0000
Hi David,
i appreciate the news (!!!)
one thing bothers me though:
rumor has it that Microsoft is dropping support for the Windows NT 4
is there any mentioned anticipation as to move on to Windows 2000? (some
competitors have it already)
for greenhorn like me, this is not so bad as i haven't got along well with
Unix yet
Regards,
JM Saputra
----- Original Message -----
From: <drjohn@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:43 AM
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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