Paul Black
pblack at hotmail.com
Sat May 31 14:59:44 CDT 2003
Hi I submitted a proposal to a client this week for a custom application. Their nose is a bit bent out of shape because they feel they should be able to slap a CD in the drive click the install button and the app will install in a nice self-contained thing-a-ma-bob (that is what they said). Why do we have to have MS Access installed? You don't, I said, I can supply a runtime version. Why do we have to worry about what version of MS Access is installed already? We did not ask for MS Access, we asked for a custom computer application. Why do we have to worry about installing a runtime version on a machine with Access already on it and causing all kinds of problems (paraphrased)? Plain and simple they want an app that is a DBS management system but they want something that is completely autonomous. What do I do? What would you do? I may have already lost this deal but need to prepare for the next time this happens. Do I offer a solution that is all VB or C++ or some such thing or am I missing the boat here. Please help. Thanks PB _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail