[AccessD] Zoho Access Migration Plugin

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Fri Aug 14 10:20:40 CDT 2009


Actually John, a lot of your apps are either web enabled, web
compliments, or web dependant.

However, I think ya'll are arguing about whether or not the sun is going
to implode in the next billion years when there is an asteroid heading
towards us in the next few years.

Not many people realize, or are even aware of one of the next big leaps
in computer technology.  It almost sounds like science fiction.  Most of
us have seen movies where 'future' computers are interacted with in many
different ways.  Today, your primary HIDs (Human Interface Devices) are
keyboards and mice.  That's going to change, and it's going to change
within the next decade (IMO):

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/54592

My company happens to be involved (in a way) with this.  The WORKING
demos for this technology is just astounding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_txF7iETX0

This is a video showing the gaming applications.  But just imagine when
this technology is not only out, but has had a few years to percolate.
It will be infused with standard business apps.

Are you ready for that?

Drew 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:11 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Zoho Access Migration Plugin

 >I hate to have to be the one to break the bad news to Michael, but for
an increasingly large 
percentage of users, the desktop application is already dead.

Hmm...

Pick any office app... Word, Excel, Power Point, Access etc etc.  Not
web.
Office Star - Not web

Email clients - not web
Browsers themselves (though they paint the web) - not web

Just going through my program list on my computer...

Streets and Trips - not web (though web equivalents exist)
Ultra Edit
Acoustica Mixcraft (music mixer)
Band-In-A-Box (Music)
Falcon 4.0 (flight simulator)
Morrowind (RPG)
DB Power amp (plays / converts music)
Easy Log (interfaces to temperature sensor)
Empire Deluxe (simulation)
Free Download Manager (robust download manager for the web)
FS1 Flight simulator for RC planes
Hamachi (VPN software)
ITunes
ALL OF THE MICROSOFT STUFF...
MozBackup (Firefox / Thunderbird backup program)
Thunderbird (email client)

Hmm... OK this is getting boring...

I have just gone about 1/2rd of the way down the list of all of the
programs installed on my 
computer and absolutely NONE OF THEM, Not ONE, nada, zipo zilch... is a
web based application 
(interface rendered by a browser).  Several (though still a small
minority) use the web in some way, 
but NONE (not a SINGLE ONE) actually uses an interface rendered by a
browser.

What I see is that I use a search engine (Google) as an application.  I
interface to banking and my 
credit cards over the web... I suppose those could be considered web
based "applications".  My son 
plays web based games...  Other than that most everything that I use on
my computer is typical exe / 
dll kind of stuff, including viewing movies and listening to movies.
Movies are going download of 
course but the DISPLAY of the movies is still a program running on my
machine, not browser based.

 >I hate to have to be the one to break the bad news to Michael, but for
an increasingly large 
percentage of users, the desktop application is already dead.

Am I REALLY in the minority?  Sob...

OK, let's take a poll... anyone who cares to respond do an inventory of
the software on your machine 
and tell us

1) Number of browser rendered apps
2) Number of browser rendered "apps" you use hosted on the web.  I would
include search engine and 
all the social sites here (facebook etc).  IMs themselves tend to be
local programs that USE the 
web, though not always.
2) Number of non-browser rendered apps.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


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