[AccessD] OT: Abducted by Aliens Scenario

LOL, your topic reminded me of Prototype (the last school in the Naval
Nuclear pipeline).  The final qualification was an oral examination,
where I was asked some pretty bizarre questions.  I went to prototype at
A1W, nicknamed Alice In Wonderland, which was a complete mockup of the
#3 engine room on the USS Enterprise. (Actually, it was built before the
Enterprise, thus, a 'prototype').  One of the questions was that the
Starship Enterprise came into orbit and beamed the entire A1W crew onto
it...what would happen to the plant!?!  The next question, after I
explained what would happen, and what we would have to do to recover
when they beamed us back, was that S5G (an experimental sub plant next
to us) fired a torpedo at us....

To answer your actual question, sort of, I tend to design my systems so
that my personal involvement is usually unnecessary.  The only catch to
this is really .mdb corruption, which happens once in a blue moon, but
any Access developer can deal with that, and it never happens on any of
the systems I have running with a web interface.  Right now, the only
systems I have to 'support' are a few NT services I built which don't
seem to 'restart' right when we reboot the servers.  No big deal, and
they are marked for replacement by systems we will be getting in the
future.

As for intellectual rights, well, I'm no expert on the legal options
there.  Hopefully someone else will chime in there.

Drew

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jennifer
Gross
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:18 PM
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Subject: [AccessD] OT: Abducted by Aliens Scenario

Good Morning Everyone,

For all of my clients I am their single point of contact for MS Access
database development, modifications, complex queries, etc.  I suspect
that a
lot of you are as well.  I am interested to know what contractual and
physical processes as emergency steps that you have in place to provide
a
modicum of continuity to the client should you be abducted by aliens or
hit
by a bus and no longer able to fulfill your role for your clients.  

How are you handling intellectual property issues?  Do you install MDB
or
MDE to protect your copyright?  In my thinking, if I were to suddenly go
to
the great beyond my children should inherit my copyrights as some of the
systems that are single installs for my clients have the potentiality of
being marketable software packages.  In addition, each stand alone
system
has intellectual property value in and of itself.  My newer contracts
specify that I am only providing a license to the client to run the
code.
Older contracts are silent on this issue, which I have learned through
legal
battle means that I own the copyright.  Also, aside from the copyright
issues do you provide your clients with a list of individuals who could
step
in if you are out of commission, a means to access backup files,
developer
password information and any other issues that you have considered
should
aliens carry you off in the night.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts,

Jennifer


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