I would like to express my sincere thanks to Design Bais International
for hosting me and my colleagues in Las Vegas last week.

We were treated to an extremely informative and well-produced event,
and we were provided with immensely enjoyable evening dining in an
atmosphere that allowed for the convivial and substantive exchange of
information, ideas, and experiences with our learned, accomplished,
and consummately expert multivalue associates.

I'd also like to thank the exhibitors / presenters - some of whom
traveled considerable distance - that contributed to the conference.
We saw some stunningly realized industrial-grade applications, running
in a browser, that make even some the very "finest" GUI realized apps
(implemented using other client methodologies) look lame.

I have personally been using DB now for about 4 months and I am
finding the process nothing less than thrilling. That probably sounds
a tad sophomoric, but it also happens to be true. The further truth
is that I have been waiting for a tool * exactly * like DB to appear
for years. During that period my partner, Jeff Kaufman, and I have
tried just about all of the contenders - only to stop ourselves dead
after a 3-6 week period of trying to make things work. There is
nothing stopping us now.

DB provides a devlopment enviornment that allows us to re-use the vast
majority of our existing code and business rules to rapidly generate
highly interactive, :flicker-free", scalable, industrial grade
application pages ("screens") that are deployed in that most
ubiquitous of clients, a browser. Um...effectively that is ZERO
deployment in my book. The end-product is nothing short of stunning.
And it is stunning on many levels; here's what you get with a Design
Bais environment, and a Design Bais devloped application:

Pages generated by DB have highly interactive and intuitively easy
interfaces - much more so than any web page you've ever visited, and
way more so than any green screen application ever produced. The end
user enjoys multi-layered application transparency previously
unattainable, in my opinion. I expect the learning curve for new
users of our DB converted application to nearly evaporate. I see
similar evaporation of training and off-line documentation
requirements. Oh gee...too bad!!

Design Base is database agnostic. I fully expect to one day have to
the pleasure of selling to a customer that would have otherwise
ignored me had I not been able me to tick the Oracle or SQL. That
doesn't mean that our preference will still be for MV, of course.

The Design Base environment is desirable in its lack of "moving parts"
that would otherwise increase the burden of configuring and
administering a system. Everything about the environment is extremely
forgiving. Everything.

I could go on and on here, but shouldn't you really be looking into
this yourself? When was the last time you created an MV app that made
you so excited that you could barely contain yourself wanting to show
it to an end user or a colleague? That's a daily experience for me
and I'm loving it. And, I REALLY can't wait to blow my thick-client
based, or green screen based, or WAY overpriced ( and most likely non-
MV Based) competition out of the water. Which is precisely what I
intend to do.

Ok, I'm willing to admit that I might be overstating this just a tiny
bit, but only a tiny bit... I believe that the lucky few of us that
have re-engineered, or who have embarked on the re-engineering of, our
apps using Design Bais are standing on the threshold of a new era, one
in which we can focus our considerable expertise on matters of
substance (business rules) rather than matters of form (Design Bais
will do the form stuff for us - VERY nicely), one in which we can
deliver a robust, fun, easy to use, and sophisticated application in
the resource-efficient manner that has been our unappreciated hallmark
since forever.

We're finally gonna get the "Respeck" we deserve!! And we DO deserve
it, folks!

Thank you Design Bais International !!!!

I would be happy to share more of my experience with anyone wishing
more information. Please feel free to email me. In the meantime, may
your associated attributes always enjoy parallel multi-value
integrity. Mine do: I use Design Bais.

- Jim Laner

On Apr 22, 5:48 pm, Jim <jimb... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
Ya know, some of us - me, for example - should be more careful about
proof reading before clicking the "Post" button.

I have done a disservice to DesignBais International by incorrectly
naming their enterprise alternately as Design(space)Bais and
Design(space)Base in a post I made to CDP about an hour ago.

My dumb! PLEASE get the name right. It's worth doing: DesignBais
International.

For those of you who only speak Basic:

COMPANY.FIRST.NAME="DesignBais"
LEN(COMPANY.FIRST.NAME) = 10
INDEX(COMPANY.FIRST.NAME," ",1) = 0

My apologies to the DesignBais International team. Henceforth, I will
always concatenate where I failed to in the past,

- Jim Laner

Jim, I too had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the DesignBais
conference.

My assessment and experience proves this to be a product that easily allows
the MV community to compete favorably against their most popular and
expensive competitors.

In fact, our biggest problem now is keeping up with demand, remaining focus
on our flagship product (DesignBais has opened many peripheral markets) and
finding good programmers. All enviable but serious concerns.

We know there are hundreds of MV based vertical applications that could be
rejuvenated using this technology. In fact, if we weren't so busy, I would
be tempted to buy some of these proven applications and convert them myself.
I could then build that company or simply resell them to a competitor with a
less feature-rich application.

From a business standpoint, this is a product that the entire MV community
can rally around. I would encourage every MV vendor to support this product
since such support will inevitably produce a stronger presence for DBI in
the general marketplace, which is something that will benefit everyone.

Jeff Caspari

On Apr 23, 6:49 am, "Jeff Caspari" <FDFDF... (AT) sneakernet (DOT) com.invalid>
wrote:
After years of complaining that no one had a solution to the "Green
Screen" it is nice to find a solution that does it correctly.

It was also a pleasure to see the other MV companies display their
systems. (I don't recall seeing Raining Data there). With the burden
of reads and writes removed from the programmer, switching between
different MV systems appears easier than ever. Their list of supported
MV systems is impressive.

I found the presentations very enjoyable (even with Kraft and sub-zero
air-conditioners settings) and meeting the "MAN" who authored the
system.

Thanks again DesignBais for everything.

Rodney Frisard