[AccessD] The future of Access, .NET and SQL

Technology is like surfing. You either stay on the crest or wiped out. I
think 20 to 30 years is the maximum anyone can stay top side. You either
have to be willing to work like hell or as a friend did; sell up everything
in the city and move to a farm... :-)

Still working like hell.
Jim   

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lawhon, Alan C
Contractor/Morgan Research
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:39 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] The future of Access, .NET and SQL

All this speculation about the future of Access, .NET, SQL, Office (and
Microsoft's "plans" for us ...), makes me think of the lyrics from April
Lavigne's song: "Why'd you have to go and make things so COMPLICATED
???"

I remember a time when we "wrote code" using a thing called an IBM 029
keypunch machine and we submitted "jobs" to an IBM 360 mainframe
computer thru a "card reader" machine.  We came back the next day to see
if our "job"
had executed.  Believe it or not, "programming" was MUCH easier back
then.

Now, Bill Gates has to keep (or try to keep) his shareholders happy.
This
translates into constantly changing software (and "new" technologies
with
STEEP learning curves) that never end - just so Mr. Gates can sell more
software and generate more revenue and profits ...

Susan says that she's sick of it and has decided to devote her time to
writing children's books rather than trying to keep up with constantly
changing software.  Here on my job we are facing a monumental task to
"web enable" a major component of a large environmental database.  The
Senior Systems Analyst, fearing a major disaster and a P.O.'d customer,
has
spent most of the past year coming up with one reason after another for
delaying the conversion.  (I imagine by the time he runs out of excuses,
he will have found a job elsewhere ...)

I wonder if the thought has ever occurred to Bill Gates and Steve
Ballmer
that not everyone scored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT
and
not ALL of us want to spend every available minute of our "spare" time
absorbing all this "new" technology?

Alan "Old Codger" Lawhon
 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:42 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] The future of Access, .NET and SQL

 
Get out now while the gettin's good.  

========I've been gearing up for this for a long, long time. It's why I
now
write more for children than for computer users. ;) 

Susan H. 

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