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Editorial:
Max J. Pucher - Managing Director ISIS
Information Systems
Annemarie Pucher - Managing Director ISIS
Marketing Service
Ladies and Gentlemen !
The hype is still on. Internet and
Intranet oriented articles fill up half
the space of todays information technology
publications. It is the mad dash of the
UNIX boom all over again. Who cares whether
the usability in the tough environment of
everyday IS has been proven, one just has
to be in the trend!
Don't get us wrong. We do believe that
Internet technology can be a valid document
managment building block of a total IS solution.
Private corporate Intranets will neither
replace UNIX, nor Client/Server, nor mainframes
or reduce the still rising print volumes.
If the public Internet will ever fulfill
todays expectations, is anyones guess.
Interesting enough is, that some of
our own development work is mirrored by
Internet technology. ISIS has developed
a graphic-system independent presentation
technology for its own products. ISIS has
developed a platform independent document
language, but much more powerful and accurate
than HTML. But as we do believe in standards
we are working to bring you compatibility
of our products to Internet technology.
More about that on the back page of this
issue.
We would like to be so perfect and
just market our benefits rather than complaining
about the competition, but when we find
that major printer vendors recommend forms
and font conversion for printer compatibility,
we have to speak out.
It all seems so simple before you actually
do it !
Be equally carefull with function and
performance claims for statement formatter
products. 'One just cannot buy these products
from the glossies!', a systems analyst in
Canada told us after kicking out a competitor.
'The document you need can be done one way
or the other, but the effort is completely
unclear. One just needs to test real applications!'
There is nothing we can add to that!
With best regards,
Max J. Pucher and Annemarie Pucher |
