[AccessD] New SQL Server license scheme is RADICALLLY more expensive

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Nov 12 15:31:03 CST 2011


Of course had I used VMWare as the hypervisor none of this would be a problem...

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 11/12/2011 4:16 PM, Mark Simms wrote:
> The only problem with open source:
> Are you going to get the requisite and timely support needed to be
> competitive ?
> Of course, you can fix things yourself....but then when the next major build
> is released....
>   you've got to retrofit your mods. Now if that isn't shades of Sisyphus, I
> don't know what is.
> In that case, with every new release, you're climbing back up that
> mountain....retrofitting, recompiling, retesting, and on and on it goes.
>
> MSFT and the licensing cost can be a burden, but the support is pretty darn
> good...if you know where to look....and who to contact.
> That being said, for all those interested, I finally determined that many
> major bugs in Office 2010 have been addressed in a November 2011 set of
> hot-fixes and updates. The latest release number for Access 2010 and Excel
> 2010 is 14.0.6112.5000.
> The big one: VBA corruption is no longer an issue.
> Is anyone cheering ?
>
>
>



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