Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Wed Sep 28 22:11:07 CDT 2005
Actually I was thinking of selling everything and buying a women's shoe store LOL. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: September 28, 2005 6:59 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [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 -----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. -- 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com