Ladies
and Gentlemen!
The ISIS Times is back!
It has been much too long for us to have any excuses
whatsoever. We were simply too busy. So many things
have happened. We went from being the new kid on the
block in this business to become the technology leader
worldwide and the revenue leader by far in Europe and
Asia with a projected revenue of US$ 55 million for
1999. We have quintupled our revenue in the United States
in 1998. When we moved to the US in 1998 we would not
have thought that things would take off so quickly.
We will continue to move fast. You will see things
from ISIS that you might never have thought possible.
We are fully committed to give the large corporation
the TOTALLY INTEGRATED business document solution from
design to production, distribution, print and output
management, to workflow and archiving. With the acquisition
of Improx AG, a leading document recognition vendor
we now have the capability to also manage the incoming
documents and feed them into a business process.
In May 1999 we announced Papyrus
Objects, the infrastructure component of the
Papyrus system, based on our amazing OMS
- Object Meta System. It is a revolutionary
way of application interfacing, which is similar and
even compatible to OMG's BOCA and IBM's EJB. Both are
“Business Object” concepts for a component view of different
applications and can even map legacy data to new applications.
But just this view is not enough, as these applications
need to run in a distributed environment. Therefore
an object repository, management, database, service
and archive are implemented in OMS.
ISIS has always been on the forefront of object oriented
technology. Papyrus was developed from the ground up
in C++ and today has more than 10 million lines of code.
An essential advantage of our technology is, that all
code can be compiled to run on 11 different operating
systems including OS/390. This is why we were really
excited by the strategic direction of Java in which
we have strongly invested. As it turned out, Java applications
- not just the code - are less portable than our own
C++ code. While the concepts of CORBA, EJB and Java
are theoretically perfect, the current implementations
are much less so. We have developed a native business
object technology that surpasses Java by leaps and bounds
in performance and still offers the full multi-platform
capability. While Java will most probably be an important
element in our direction we will not depend on it. Our
quality criteria can not be fulfilled with Java today.
Obviously there are exceptions and fully blown Java
systems exist - but take a serious look at what effort
and hence cost!
You will say: “Here they go again! ISIS is against
everything, no Microsoft, no PDF, no XML and now not
even Java?” It is shocking! How do we even make money
at all? Good question, because we certainly do not do
it with “buzzword selling”, so our solutions must be
really working, right?
With Papyrus
Objects our trademarked slogan is “The
End of Programming!” and one can not be more controversial
than that. So you better check where we are going.
With our very best regards,
 Max
J. Pucher
CEO, ISIS Holding AG
Annemarie Pucher
President, ISIS Papyrus Software AG
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