[AccessD] New SQL Server license scheme is RADICALLLY moreexpensive

 > You can buy a 2 Terabyte external HD for $89 or less now...will be significantly faster and more 
flexible than going the DVD route.

There's someone out of touch with global warming / floods in Thailand.

;)

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

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

On 11/12/2011 5:22 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> You can buy a 2 Terabyte external HD for $89 or less now...will be
> significantly faster and more flexible than going the DVD route.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 2:04 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] New SQL Server license scheme is RADICALLLY
> moreexpensive
>
> JC:
>
> SInce you have lots of boxes available, my suggestion would be this:
>
> a) sacrifice one box to the god of Linux, and choose either Ubuntu 64 or
> 32-bit, depending upon the hardware.
> b) install the appropriate virgin of Ubuntu; reformat the main drive to
> suit this;
> c) wait a while, while it installs all the default software;
> d) when it's all done, download a VM engine such as Oracle/Sun VirtualBox
> (there are others, but that one happens to me my choice).
> e) install any other OSs that you think you may need (which assumes that
> you have the boot discs for same).
>
> At this point, you should arrive at a native Ubuntu boot and have access to
> x number of VMs, with the ability to create more.
>
> At the moment, I haven't yet flipped my main squeeze, but I plan to do so
> in the immediate future. At the moment, I'm running Windows 7 as the native
> boot, and then running Oracle VirtualBox inside that, and inside that, I
> run various VMs, including Ubtuntu, Mint and Windows 8 Preview CTP 3.
> Everything works just ducky. I and everyone else in the world could profit
> (even if only the non-monetary version of this word) by acquiring more RAM,
> but for now this arrangement suits me to a tee.
>
> My ultimate plan is to flip this whole setup, so that Ubuntu is the native
> boot, and all instances of Windows and Office and Access and .NET are VMs,
> isolated from the serious stuff, so that no harm can befall the base OS.
>
> One of my goals in this endeavour is to learn Mono, and see how much code
> can be transported to this frame. As it happens, an old friend has offered
> me a simple database to transport from his dozen Excel workbooks into a
> single Access db, which I could in theory transport to Base or some other
> Linux db.
>
> I think that I'll postpone this flip until the Christmas holiday week, when
> I am guaranteed not to hear from any client with pressing issues. That
> gives me lots of time to back up everything (I just bought another 50-pack
> of DVDs).
>
> A.
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Mark Simms<marksimms at verizon.net>  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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