Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 2 01:34:58 CDT 2012
Well, you shouldn't hold your breathe but OTOH the whole region is being covered with fiber-optic cabling. India is flat out in trying to beat China and China claims they will be totally cabled in three years. http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/03/04/entire-china-on-fiber-optics-in-3-year s So you shouldn't get too complacent. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 10:51 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Regarding multi-value field, from a reader And how long do you think that will be in the developing economies (China, India etc) and the lesser developed countries? It will be many, many years before my clients are in a position to use high bandwidth, cloud based SAAS etc. -- Stuart On 1 Nov 2012 at 22:38, jwcolby wrote: > And the day that it is fiber to every door, and the cloud is uninterruptable... then we can talk > such stuff. Until then it is pure nonsense. Unless of course having your business completely down > because the data center in NYC is underwater is acceptable. > > None of my clients need the power of the cloud, nor is the cloud reliable enough yet. I have no > doubt that it will be some day soon (10 years), at which time it will make a lot of sense. > > Today I think not. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 11/1/2012 4:52 PM, Jim Dettman wrote: > > > > I should clarify one point; when I said "Traditional desktop development > > with Access is > > out.", I should have said " on it's way out" > > > > With 2013, you still can develop desktop apps. But no new features have > > been added to support that and nothing new (from my viewpoint) has been > > added for quite some time (see my reply to Tina). > > > > What I see from Microsoft is that everything (not just with Access) is all > > about the cloud and Office 365 and if your not heading in that direction, > > your heading in the wrong one. > > > > Jim. > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com