DANTE (DAPHNE new tools enviroment) is the control system for the DAPHNE PHI-Factory uder construction at the Frascati National Laboratories of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). The main design goal has been to keep the software simple and easy to debug. Commercial components have been used whenever possible, with a preference for widey diffused and well established products, as opposed to 'standards'. Macintosh computers are used throughout the system and LabVIEW has been choosen as development enviroment. We strongly oppose the 'start from scratch' philosophy.
C. et al. (Tue,) studied this question.