Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Sep 20 10:14:52 CDT 2012
Hi Shamil: It all Sounds good and I am look forward to hearing about your plans as I am sure many others here are thinking the same thoughts and asking the same questions. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 3:36 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] SMB - HTML5 mobile-friendly web sites vs. native mobile apps - Was:Re: Bootcamp or Paralells - was RE: OT: iPhone/iPaddevelopment on an MS Windows PC - noway? Hi Jim -- Thank you for your detailed reply. <<< Open Standards and the associated Open Source products offer greater diversity and opportunities in the long term. >>> OK. I must note I didn't argue with that point in this thread. <<< Proprietary software may offer fast larger profits but they are short-term...ten years maximum generally less. >>> That's exactly what I'm looking for. :) I have no luxury to plan even for five years ahead. And I'm 30 years in this industry - starting my programming carrier using proprietary assembler, Algol, Fortran, then IBM360/370 macro-assembler, PL/I, ... - actually everything as I have read and used all the IBM370 system and programming docs - that were not a lot, then PDP11/RSX11M - on system core level as well as on application level - again all docs read from cover to cover, then IBM PCs - skipped assembler/system level this time and have been programming mainly on utility and application level but used different programming languages and technologies etc. I will write a bit more on that my "short-term" plan in this thread next week - please note I prefixed this thread subject with 'SMB' - Small-Middle-Size business - this is my target customers base, I do not work for corporate companies. <<< As long as you balance those facts, what ever development environment you decide on and what level of risk you are most comfortable with will work. >>> Sure. Thank you. -- Shamil Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:35:43 -0700 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: >Hi Shamil: > > Just some clarification here first: Apple is not a software company, it is a > hardware company. Even the core to Apple PCs are borrowed from OpenBSD (OSS > Unix/Linux) software...it is more like any other Linux distro. > > You are right that fixed dictated standards are restricting but the phrase > is OPEN standards. These are not hard and fast but they are agreements > within the entire industry. > > Just like electricity coming to your house. If every supplier put their own > standard on the delivery, cycles, power-levels etc, no one would be able to > trust the functionality of their equipment. Right now there are four major > electric standards in the world, each has different set of plugs but there > are universal transformers so I know my laptop will work whether I am in > Canada/US, in Europe/Russia, Britain (they are weird ;-)) or in Japan/China. > > The computer industry, by necessity is the same thing. > > I think in this industry a developer, starting out, has to first have and > keep a solid background in the Open Standards products...that for the most > cases will be their "bread and butter"...the long-term meal ticket. Then and > only then a developer should specialize...realizing of course that all > proprietary languages on custom platforms have a relative short lifespan and > the technology could get dumped at a moments notice. > > Case in point: I know more dead-languages than live ones. I used to be a SCO > senior product re-seller and a CNE (Certified Novell Engineer) but we all > know what happened to SCO and Novell when the OSS product, Linux hit the > market. Access is not dead but can you imagine where it would be at if it > was a OSS product and not being restricted by the whims of the owner. > > In summary; Open Standards and the associated Open Source products offer > greater diversity and opportunities in the long term. Proprietary software > may offer fast larger profits but they are short-term...ten years maximum > generally less. As long as you balance those facts, what ever development > environment you decide on and what level of risk you are most comfortable > with will work. > > Jim ><<< skipped >>> > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com