Became interested in Alexander and Patterns while developing a project management system for an Archtiectural firm. Patterns seemed to be a good way to organize what we had been calling "cliches" without really making any good use of them. Our joint venture with the architects was unexpectedly terminated in January when they got into financial difficulty. We have regrouped with half of that team (5 of us) and are branching into other domains. We have a prototype and a proposal which we expect to close on within a week or two, in the Health Care Outcomes industry. Our work is primarily in C++, we use MATISSE as our Object Database, and our major areas of focus are semantic modeling, platform portability and an architecture that allows user interfaces to change dynamically, as the underlying model changes. : Dave McComb, President, First Principles, inc. : mailto:mkumba@fpi.com (970) 490-6135 ---- CategoryHomePage