Note: I posted the following a couple of days ago. It has
mysteriously disappeared from CDP. I smell a rat!

I rarely post to CDP, but I feel quite passionate about this
particular subject. I am therefore compelled to re-post this edited
version. The typos in the original post have been fixed - most
especially the name of our host company in Las Vegas; DesignBais
International.

If you happen to find my original post lying around, please discard
it....

.....I would like to express my sincere thanks to DesignBais
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
experiences 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 apps
(implemented using other client methodologies), look lame.

I have personally been using DesignBais 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
DesignBais 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.

DesignBais provides a development environment that allows us to re-use
the vast majority of our existing code and business rules to rapidly
generate highly interactive, fast-responding, 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 we get with a
DesignBais environment, and a DesignBais developed application:

Pages generated by DesignBais 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 DesignBais converted application to nearly evaporate. I
see similar evaporation of training and off-line documentation
requirements. Oh gee...too bad!!

DesignBais is database agnostic. MV platforms of all flavors are
supported, as are Oracle and SQL. I have every expectation of one day
selling our application to a customer that would have otherwise have
passed us over because we could not offer anything but MV.

The DesignBais 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 out of the water
my thick-client based, or green screen based, or WAY overpriced ( and
most likely non-MV Based) competition. 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 DesignBais, 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 (DesignBais
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