[AccessD] Fw: Office 365 Re: You Guys make Me Sick

I don't really consider Office 365 in its current version "true  cloud
computing". It offers crippled versions of Office products and a kludge for
running Access web apps, which have limited functionality. The only part of
interest to me for doing real work is that you can use it for a back end for
a real Access application. When connected to the web the application synchs
with the SharePoint lists. When off line you can still work on your desktop
app. This could be great for folks on the road if you're not talking big
data.

Using current technology, i.e.,  ASP.NET and JavaScript, I can create an app
that will run on anything with a web browser, but for a lot more development
cost than an Access application, and you need to be connected full time. But
the cost of running the application for all users is a modest hosting
account not $ per user as with Office 365.

Office 365 and the cloud have a way to go in my probably biased view.

Doug

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 1:05 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Fw: Office 365 Re: You Guys make Me Sick

Yeah, but that's not true cloud computing.

>
> Actually you can use vba if you keep the front end on the client and 
> link to the SP lists in 365. I am not impressed that SP lists are 
> limited to something like 10,000 rows. Hopefully that will be upped so 
> some serious storage can be implemented.


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