[AccessD] Alpha Anywhere

Hey All
Do not really understand what you guys are discussing. ACCESS for developers
is dead in the water and we all know it one way or the other. Maybe I am
having a "DUH moment". Please be more succinct.

Tony Septav
Nanaimo, BC
Canada


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: September-03-13 7:48 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Alpha Anywhere

And in the heart of the capital city of PNG, we dream of a service as good
as they get in 
Australia, even ADSL2  :-(

-- 
Stuart

On 3 Sep 2013 at 23:39, Darryl Collins wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> 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. 

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