After ten good years of Appeon, the 6.5 release of the product has fully progressed through its early years and adolescence to become one of the most radical products available designed to enable developers to build web applications with 4GL-level productivity and 4GLstyle rich UIs. One decade on and with closer proximity to Sybase than ever before, Appeon technologies are now broader and more interoperable than at any time in the past. ISUG Technical Journal speaks to Armeen Mazda to try and determine why he feels his company’s automation-focused developer technologies are worth taking a closer look at.