[AccessD] Alpha Anywhere

Good points Jim,

Broadband (or Fraudband as we like to call it) is a huge issue in Australia.  If you live is the city it is generally ok, although many folks are still on ADSL2 - turbo charged copper wire from the 1800's.  Some are on cable, but that also has its own constraints.

Go out a little bit from the Urban areas and it turns to crap pretty quickly.

Even with wireless the carriers play games with their stats.  Sure they cover something line 96% of the population, but it is only about 4% of the land mass in total.  So if you are on the edge of the cities it gets real patchy real fast.  This is because nearly everyone in Australia lives up in the SE corner of the country (Between Brisbane to Melbourne really).

So yeah, streaming and cloud services get ugly real fast - especially as many of the mobile carriers have tight monthly data caps as well.  That model just isn't going to work too well in many parts of the world.





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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman
Sent: Tuesday, 3 September 2013 10:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Alpha Anywhere


  It's not that they cannot, it's they don't want to.

  Microsoft has jumped ship in regards to the desktop and are looking to leapfrog everyone by a few years. Their entire corporate strategy and focus is aimed at the web and getting Office users onto a subscription model because the software development cycle as we know it is no longer
sustainable.   They don't want anyone on the desktop any more with
applications.

  The risk is that they may have jumped too far too quickly.  Not everyone has broadband for example and their effort may fail for that reason alone.
The other biggie is security; not everyone is comfortable with everything
being in the cloud and having someone else in control of your data.   The
exposure of the government monitoring programs could not have come at a worst time for them, as it proves beyond a doubt how data is no longer under
your control once off premise.   I think that more then anything is going to
give people pause about the use of cloud technologies.

  But even without that, I think they under estimated the reluctance of business moving into the cloud.  Unfortunately, I believe it's too late for
Access.   I really do think their turning it into nothing more then a front
end / power user tool that's web based.   Oh the desktop side will still be
around for a while, but I think it will stand as is and not change from this
point forward.   It's pretty obvious that the last three releases were
focused on nothing but the web.   It also seems pretty obvious that they are
focused on using macro's with web apps and will not bring anything more powerful on board for coding.  They are also suggesting doing reporting via Excel and that's the last functional piece they need to round out web apps.

 There maybe a small glimmer of hope though; they woke up a bit with Windows
8 and have back tracked.  Maybe they'll do the same for the desktop side again and make some improvements, or at least provide some more power under the hood with web apps in order to get existing DB's onto the web, but that seems like a long shot at this point.  Web App's are just too much of a departure from the current desktop DB's.

 And so many developers have already left the product.  By the time we would see improvements, there may not be many of us left to use them :(

Jim.  

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 10:03 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Alpha Anywhere

Thanks Arthur -
it boggles the mind that neither MSFT nor Adobe with their near infinite resources....
could come-up with a competitive offering ?


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