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AlphaBlox Web-based Data Analysis Product
Source: InfoWorld.com Published: Dec 1997 George Schussel reviews new AlphaBlox Web-based Data Analysis Product. Start-up company AlphaBlox details a Java based application development system built on components at DCI’s Client-Server and Database World conference. The vendor in early 1998 will unveil a product called AlphaBlox Enlighten, for building customizable data-analysis applications, such as sales analysis, customer retention, and risk analysis.
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GUI tools rolling out as enabling machines
Source: Software Magazine Published: Sep 1991 Industrial-strength front-end tools are beginning to become available for client/server architectures. These tools take advantage of PC graphics, connect to many server databases and offer powerful object oriented capabilities to the professional application developer. "You can consider these products as replacements of the 4GLs of the '80s," said George Schussel, president of Digital Consulting, Inc., in Andover, Mass.
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A Perspective on the Application of Fourth Generation Languages in Computer Software Development
Source: Perspective Published: Feb 1988 The NCR magazine Perspective published George Schussel’s thoughts on a new generation of application development languages in 1988. Some comments from that article follow: At present 4GLs can be identified into five different categories: Query and reporting packages – These are typically used in the data processing department and are not suitable for updating files, but are very suitable for retrieving information from existing data bases. An example is CCA's Imagine.
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Application Development in the 5th Generation
Source: Datamation Published: Nov 1987 In this landmark 1987 article, George Schussel forecasts the future of software technologies over the coming decade of the 90’s. The article accurately forecast the emergence of technologies such as 3-tiered computing architectures, computer aided software engineering (CASE), repositories, distributed databases, SQL standards and other important software futures.
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Shopping for a Fourth Generation Language
Source: Datamation Published: Nov 1986 Application developers are always searching for better higher level software that will improve the development of software. It has always been that way in the computer business, and we don’t see anything on the horizon to change this principle of the computing.
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A Taxonomy for Productivity Software
Source: Data Base Newsletter Published: Sep 1986 In this 1986 article George Schussel lays out a categorization scheme for application development software and describes the differences between the different types of development software.
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