Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Nov 2 01:13:34 CDT 2012
Most banks? Or most north american banks? -- Stuart On 1 Nov 2012 at 23:01, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Most banks run their systems through a Citrix station and no longer support > in-house servers. Of course their remote servers have built in fail-over > which just automatically re-directs a client to another remote synced server > in the event of a failure. > > They have a number of ISP broadband pipes out of each bank so internet > performance is never an issue. Eventually, they will be moving all their > resources into the Cloud as well then they will not even need a Citrix > station or even a router, just a smart switch with encryption/de-encryption > capabilities. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 7:39 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Regarding multi-value field, from a reader > > And the day that it is fiber to every door, and the cloud is > uninterruptable... then we can talk > such stuff. Until then it is pure nonsense. Unless of course having your > business completely down > because the data center in NYC is underwater is acceptable. > > None of my clients need the power of the cloud, nor is the cloud reliable > enough yet. I have no > doubt that it will be some day soon (10 years), at which time it will make a > lot of sense. > > Today I think not. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 11/1/2012 4:52 PM, Jim Dettman wrote: > > > > I should clarify one point; when I said "Traditional desktop development > > with Access is > > out.", I should have said " on it's way out" > > > > With 2013, you still can develop desktop apps. But no new features > have > > been added to support that and nothing new (from my viewpoint) has been > > added for quite some time (see my reply to Tina). > > > > What I see from Microsoft is that everything (not just with Access) is > all > > about the cloud and Office 365 and if your not heading in that direction, > > your heading in the wrong one. > > > > Jim. > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >