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

Mike Gunderloy is still on a farm.

Jim Lawrence wrote:

>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   
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[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. 
>
>  
>

-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada