Appeon sponsored and attended Ottawa Sybase User Conference in this April. During the two-day session, we demoed our product and communicated with many local PowerBuilder Developers.

The first presentation of the Development tools track saw Mr. Armeen Mazda who was a key member of the initial team that founded Appeon Corporation back in 1999. He is also Appeon's CEO and President. Armeen presented two topics for the balance of the morning which were Rich Internet Application Development Made Easy with PowerBuilder and Appeon and Learning from a Highly Transactional and Available Web Business Application. The presentations were extremely interesting and drew many questions from the attendees. The focus on webification was definitely a key focus for many of the PowerBuilder developers as their current work assignments and their IT management have been directing them in that direction. Armeen was also able to relate to his customer base and gave many tips, techniques, approaches and traps that comprised some great lessons learned information. During the presentations from Armeen, he was also able to break into actual demonstrations of the Appeon web development platform that is integrated with PowerBuilder. Interesting points were made that, not only does Appeoan make your Webform applications super fast with all of Appeons special runtime optimization, but the development time is 4:1 better in terms of lines of code and time; and Appeon with PowerBuilder applications can be done with an eight times better cost ratio than MS.NET products. These were statistics gathered from actual projects using Appeon vs. Visual Studio. All in all, a most impressive product that held the OSUG members attention. Armeen was able to stay for the entire two day session and even on the 2nd day was giving more demonstrations in the Sybase Canada board room that Sybase donated for OSUG use during the two day event. For more information on Appeon, please visit their website at http://www.appeon.com.