[AccessD] Svar: What to do? (was: Just Another Old Boys Club)

I have one client that would die for this technology. He's been a client on
and off for about 5 years. He's what is called a Safety Assessment
Engineer, which means that he visits factories and looks at the machines
(drills, presses, robots, etc.) and takes measurements to ensure their
compliance with provincial standards. Currently he records these
measurements by lugging his laptop from workstation to workstation. Then
when he gets back to the home/office, he prints reports to PDF format
(these IMO are very slick; they're not Access reports but Word documents
into which large amounts of data and photos of the workstations are
plonked).

I won't suggest that he buy a Surface until it's been demonstrated that an
Access app will run on such a baby, but he would die for that ability. And
he might just give me a justification to purchase one for myself, too.

A.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Gustav:
>
> Maybe at your end of the country the businesses are a little more
> progressive but here these guys are ultra conservative. Most have not even
> moved off XP (sad), some that have are using Win7 but only in specific
> places and even if Win8 was another XP clone it would take at least five
> years for management to take the package seriously. Some managers have
> moved
> to an Apple product; like owning BMW. Unfortunately, Apple stations are
> priced out of the market and there still are very few people who can fix
> them.
>
> The one thing that Win8 has going for it is that its new price-point looks
> very good...it is about time, as Linux is poised to scoop the desktop
> market...but what sort of hardware will be the realist minimum?
>
> Jim
>
>