October 1996 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

Job Opening: Product Manager, Application Development Products
by David Hughes 04 Oct '96

04 Oct '96

[This message is being posted to the following lists; please forgive any duplicate messages: ACSMEDI(a)LISTS.WAYNE.EDU CHEMIND-L(a)DERWENT.TECC.CO.UK CHEMWEB(a)IC.AC.UK CHMINF-L(a)IUBVM.INDIANA.EDU ISISFORUM-L(a)MDLI.COM ISISDEV-L(a)MDLI.COM] JOB OPENING: Product Manager, Application Development Products San Leandro, California MDL Information Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of integrated scientific information management systems, databases, and services used worldwide in pharmaceutical, chemical, agrochemical, and biotechnology research and development, and in other industries that use chemical products. MDL's solutions help individuals, research teams, and research organizations make the most of their intellectual assets by offering ways to speed new product discovery and handle products more safely and effectively. MDL, founded in 1978 as Molecular Design Limited, is truly a pioneer in the realm of inhouse chemical and biological information systems. We are now looking for an energetic, motivated individual to guide our efforts into the future. In this position you will work within our marketing department to define future directions for MDL's set of application development products, aimed at chemical and scientific information systems. You will work closely with product development and with our customers while defining the course of these products. This position is ideal for an individual highly skilled in state-of-the-art application development environments who would like to make a career change and set the actual product directions for this portion of our product offerings. A knowledge of chemistry is not required (though it wouldn't be turned down.) This job opening is in our headquarters office, in San Leandro, California. Responsibilities: + Plan the future directions for the application development products + Work with the development team to refine the product vision + Meet with interested customers in order to determine customer needs Minimum Qualifications: + Degree in computer science and/or chemistry + Minimum of 2 years programming experience + Strong knowledge of advanced application development environments, such as Delphi, Visual C++, Oracle PowerObjects, Java + Experience writing applications in a Windows or Macintosh development environment (e.g. with Visual Basic) + Solid understanding of information systems, particularly relational Desired Qualifications: + Experience with ISIS or other chemical database systems + Experience developing ISIS applications (e.g. using ISIS/PL) + Knowledge of (organic) chemistry If you are interested in this position, please send your resume with a cover letter specifying the position "#DH2" to the attention of Human Resources: E-mail: jobs(a)mdli.com Fax: 510 614 3679 Mail: MDL Information Systems, Inc. 14600 Catalina Street San Leandro, CA 94577 MDL is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: MDLI), with 352 employees worldwide, over 800 customers worldwide, and $61.5 million in revenues for year ended March 1996. For further information about MDL and our products, please visit our WWW homepage at http://www.mdli.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ David Hughes Group Manager, Core Products, ISIS Business Unit MDL Information Systems, Inc. phone: (510) 895-1313, x.1432 14600 Catalina Street fax: (510) 352-2870 San Leandro, CA 94577 email: davidh(a)mdli.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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browser profiles over the last 9 months
by Mark Winter 01 Oct '96

01 Oct '96

For your interest I enclose percentage browser stats for the last 9 months here. There's all sorts of reasons why these numbers aren't scientific but the apparent trends are interesting anyway. You may find these numbers helpful when deciding what features to implement on your pages. Browsers vers Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep MSIE 3.9 3.6 5.8 6.4 5.2 5.7 7.3 7.5 9.8 Mosaic 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.4 2.0 1.8 1.6 1.1 NetScape 0.9 1.6 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 NetScape 1 7.0 4.2 3.0 2.5 2.8 2.0 1.1 0.9 1.0 NetScape 1.1 30.3 25.8 21.7 18.3 14.9 12.6 9.0 7.8 4.8 NetScape 1.2 22.7 19.1 16.9 11.8 13.4 9.8 6.7 6.8 6.0 NetScape 2 26.8 37.2 44.0 51.3 50.4 53.3 53.4 52.7 44.8 NetScape 3 0 0 0.1 2.2 6.0 11.1 17.8 20.2 29.7 All other browsers are very small. About 2300 variants of browsers were logged over the 9 months! Note the falling % for Moaic. NetScape Version 3 use is increasing rapidly. Version 2 is dropping as version 3 picks up while the proportion of version 1 users is also dropping slowly. MS InterNet Explorer (all versions) is slowly rising and is now around 10%. About 85% of all hits come from [NetScape v2 or better + MSIE] and given that MSIE is at least as capable as NetScape 2, so we are fast approaching a point at which NetScape version 2 capabilities can be assumed. Platform Macintosh 23.2 23.5 24.9 25.5 19.6 22.3 26.7 19.8 18.3 PC 64.3 62.3 61.9 59.9 63.2 62.6 59.4 66.7 71.8 Unix 11.9 12.9 12.1 12.4 15.6 13.6 12.6 12.1 9.0 The percentages of the 3 main platforms are holding fairly steady, but PC numbers increased relative to both Macs and UNIX. ***However*** the September stats are not quite on the same basis as earlier months as my site is taking far more hits from the USA than before after the installation of a redirection to the Sheffield WebElements site from the Berkeley WebElements mirror site rather than Berkeley operating its own WebElements mirror. Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department, Director of Studies) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 282 4498 fax: +44 (0)114 273 8673 e-m: M.Winter(a)Sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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MOTM
by Paul May 01 Oct '96

01 Oct '96

Hi, October's MOTM is now ready. It's water, which may sound commonplace, but there's a lot of fascinating information I didn't know about it... It was written by Shawn Huston from Tripos, and the direct URL is: http://Walden.MVP.Net/~shawn/motm/index.html and as usual, it's can be reached via the link at the MOTM site at: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Put your message in a modem and throw it in the cybersea" - Rush, 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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