jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Aug 10 12:12:14 CDT 2009
>It is becoming harder to ignore the reality that the web is rapidly becoming the dominant application platform. And it only takes loss of internet for a day or two (happened to my client up in CT just a month or two ago) to realize that shutting your entire business down because you were silly enough to have an internet only application might be a costly proposition. Stuff happens. Most of Egypt and much of northern Africa was almost entirely off line for about a week because a cable was cut on the ocean floor. Entire parts of the San Francisco bay was cut off for a significant time because of (apparently) disgruntled employees cutting a cable. NOT the business operandi I would want to have. If you decide to house your databases on your own servers, then a web based application looks much less enticing, though doable with .Net. Bear in mind that internet facing portions of a database are not usually a large part of the total application. Much of it is simple grunt work data entry, imports / exports, reports for internal consumption. It would be interesting to know what percentage of total companies in the US are single locations. Probably well over 80%. How many of them have any need to post much of any of their internal database to the web? Probably not many. I created a database for a screw company. Single location (later a factory in China). They needed (wanted really) to post stock quantities to their web site. I did it with simple PDFs linked to web page hotlinks, the PDFs generated once a day and uploaded to the web site. The entire rest of their database was about internal stuff - orders, stock, QA data etc. Absolutely none of that needed to go browser based. >It is becoming harder to ignore the reality that the web is rapidly becoming the dominant application platform. I would question that assertion. Those who SELL web development certainly want you to buy that though. "Has its place" certainly. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Kenneth Ismert wrote: > I was searching for "Microsoft Access market share 2009", and this link > popped up: > > Zoho Creator: Migrate MS Access Database > http://www.zoho.com/creator/migrate-msaccess-database.html > > It's a plug-in for Zoho Creator that lets you import Access tables and data. > See the video at the bottom of the page for a demo. > > It doesn't look like they import Access forms, but create generic forms > using their own engine. They also claim Access has "no scripting options", > but I seem to recall that it does... hmm, what does Microsoft call that > language? > > Zoho Creator is a web data/forms/RAD application, with its own scripting > language, Deluge. See: > > Creator Platform Overview > http://www.zoho.com/creator/platform-overview.html > > This to me signals the beginnings of a Access-to-web conversion trend. It is > becoming harder to ignore the reality that the web is rapidly becoming the > dominant application platform. It could be Shamil's Northwind to > ASP.NETproject is the only forward-looking Access development effort > we have. > > -Ken