Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Oct 24 13:28:39 CDT 2014
Hi Darryl: You are probably right but the people that know how to setup such an environment are compensated very well...some of the best paid people in the tech market. If a person is very close to retirement they can make a strong case for not learning or not even becoming familiar. OTOH, those techs with many years ahead of them should at least familiarise themselves with the technology as how can they be expected to help their clients when their knowledge is so limited. Specializing has its perks but a good generalist is what the market is asking for. Just like in the trades; a journeyman carpenter may be paid well, but the the fellow that makes the most and has the greatest control of a project is always the contractor. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl Collins" <darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:59:22 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Outlook 2003 True enough, but for most folks they prefer a solution where someone else does all the nuts and bolts work. I think of it like a car. In the early days only enthusiasts had them and the majority of folks worked on them in their own sheds - they knew the parts intimately because of this. These days folks like owning a car, but many of them wouldn't know the first thing about repairing one (or want to for that matter) - I know folks who wouldn't even know where to top up the oil if they needed too - the mechanics are a mystery to them. They would much rather just drive it and let the service dept take care of any issues. Computers are rapidly approaching this sort of point for most people. Most folks don't care or want to know about the back end magic. Also Outlook also integrates with the other MS Office products, particularly One Note, which we use extensively - so that is a feature worth having / paying for - at least for us. Cheers Darryl. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Friday, 24 October 2014 7:58 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Outlook 2003 But you can run your own personal cloud on your own server(s). OwnCloud is just such a product: http://owncloud.org Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Dettman" <jimdettman at verizon.net> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:41:25 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Outlook 2003 There's also the privacy issue with any free cloud based service. You don't get something for nothing; Google routinely goes through e-mails and then targets ads based on that. Unless I was in complete control (like renting a server), I'd put zero information in the cloud. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 05:59 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Outlook 2003 Only if you operate in an environment where you can always be sure of having a connection to the internet. That's not the best solution for me. All my emails are available to me on my laptop wherever I am. -- Stuart On 22 Oct 2014 at 16:58, Arthur Fuller wrote: > With all the > data trapped in Outlook on my desktop, I'd be powerless. Of all the > apps that should live on the cloud, email has to be The one. > > Just my 5 cents. > Arthur -- 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com