Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 2 01:46:44 CDT 2012
North American banks for sure but we will soon be able to say South American as well and of course Europe, most of Russia and some of the modern Arab states and don't forget Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Korea and I would suspect China is well on the way. (Probably, every major financial center in the world) I guess that leaves most of Africa, most of India, some of the middle east and PNG? ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 11:14 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Regarding multi-value field, from a reader 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 > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com