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18| NY-APL9905 . Philips NA . 1251 6th Fl 20 .  EricBaelen : APL2000 .
EricBaelen :  APL2000  ; FredWaid :  OpenHere  .

|18:35| Eric : As expected , recognizable faces . APL2000 doing well ,
  How undo APL marginalization : make relevant in 2000 .
                                ( Eric pro Clinton  Right to Lie  . )
 Bought by  Cognos  - Large respected vendor   ( 2-300 M$ co )  bought .
  Selling LEX2000 - 1st APL based Consolidation Pkg .
   Speed most impressed w : speed
  Building their own APL based product .
 Release APL+WIN 3.5  |  access to latest GUIs .
 Orlando ( alas not New Orleans )   3rd wk Nov .
 Access to web .
Cognos vision : mesurable competitive advantage by making data accessable
 24 ways to increase your     BusinessIntelligence .
 Legacy Apps + EnterpriseResourcePlanning ( SAP ) interfaced to BusnIntel
  thru intranet to Data Warehouse .
 HQ : Ottawa CD -  Revs : 245M$ ( `97 ) | Eric most sr guy in Co .
  Sell bucket of steam - find have 2 drops of water .
 1M seat BI mkt .
 Gartner Grp says  Mkt Leader .
 Products :
   Impromptu Web query & Reporting tools .
   PowerPlay : OLAP cube browser - driller .
   LEX2000 .
 APL : new Euro symbol ( MS std ) | 8k line session log . bookmarks .
  executed line mkrs .
  Value Tips  on cursor_over any token .
  MostRecentlyUsed WS list .
  Customizable ToolList .
  Stop & trace on exit  - header line .
  CodeWaker - multi panaled debuger - Session , code & state .
  Nested quotes problem  :   can use "  same as ' .  "Isn't APL fun"
   " asdlfk ' asdk;lwer "   | claims is recursive . I don`t see .
  ts def fn   | time stamps fn .
  APL objects w  method & events .
  Aliases to internals of tree ( object ) .
  Has fancy calendar .
  using shareware resource from  France . Guy was old STSCer . Just asked for
   copy of interpreter in exchange. .
   be out June July , can get now if need . 500$ upgrade .
   Prequel ? still sell APL-PC for 200$ .
|20:8| Fred Waid : Amazing that programmers still don`t generally use a
 rational programming font .  I.e. : Love that APL font  .
 Server - search engine .  Excite using PERL -- now 4B$ Co .
  APL can beat pants off PERL or C doing searches .
  1 of 10 largest search & index sites . Have built site :  OpenHere  8 Servers .
  e-mail , chat rooms .   2 gig main DB .  65k categories .
  One of fastest on web .
  10k line thin client JavaScript . like  USA.net     . ( ours better )
  Reminder servece - all done by  Fred over last couple of yrs .
  Central log-on server .
 Goal : Ads - ( ARE lucretive ) , + premium content .
  no buddy instant msgs .
  Looking for downloadable fns . for value added content .
Eric : AI company evaluation .
  Fred & family :  homeeducation.org  &  homeeducation.net .
 Use Voice of America news feed .
 Puts runtime copy on your machine .
 Web Stats :  statmarket.com  : 70M page views  cataloged . analysed .
  big chunk of people easy to make happy .
 ClubMed France - yahoo vs OpenHere - got there in 2 kliks .
  [  I think Yahoo is becoming less & less Useful  ]
 not that much traffic  -  500k impressions last mo .
 FW : targeted toward Families & Women - largest growing catagory - O+ > 50yr
EB :  GE`s JackWelch : 'destroy your busn ' .  catching up w web .
  Keeping relevant . |20:37|

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