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Charles,
I've heard that the Team Leader and most of the team on the "recently
released" windows 4gl product, have left Ingres/Ask to form a new company
in the US.
Rumour has it that they were unhappy with ASK's future plans for their
product.
I'll try and find out more about this today.
Iain.
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| From the March 4 issue of UNIGRAM, page 5:
"In what looks like bad news for ASK Computer Systems Inc's Ingres
Corp, key members of the Windows 4GL development team-including
Neil Goodman, who was one of the company's leading database
architects-have left the company to join a start-up led by Marty
Sprinzen, ex-international vice president of Ingres. The new
company is funded by venture capital, is believed to be based in
San Francisco and is expected to develop an applications generator
product to rival Ingres. Industry sources have learned that the
team left because the members disliked working on a product that
was rightly or wrongly perceived as being optimized for just one
vertical market-manufacturing. However, it looks as if the news
could be worse for internal morale than for the Ingres product
itself, since, as UK managing director Mike Hedger says "the Windows
4GL product is already developed, out in the field, supported, and
is a stable product". Furthermore, plans for the product's
development over the next two years have been prepared and submitted
so that the architectural side of Windows 4GL appears to bave been
safeguarded. And a new version of Windows 4GL will be launched
shortly, as Ingres planned."
typos are mine.
Mark
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On the Windows/4gl side :
I was at an Ingres UK windows/4gl seminar, where they showed the
product to some large customers. After the presentations and
demonstrations, one of the marketing managers asked the customers if
they could see any situations where the tool may be useful !
It very much appeared - and still appears - to be a product that no-one
in Ingres is sure what it can be used for.
Just an observation,
Iain Stephen.
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