Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Jan 25 00:22:28 CST 2015
I was asked to give a little talk to a few senior managers of a fairly healthy company, for a third party tech group that I had worked for a few years back (an old favour). The thrust of our proposal was for the company to move their business away from proprietary software companies as they would find themselves in the same terrible situation they now find themselves in. Their servers are all Win2003 and all their stations are XP. If they are going to pay out millions(?), the company wants to have complete control and not be stuck on an endless treadmill of expensive upgrades. Their assessment of their position can not be argued. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Dettman" <jimdettman at verizon.net> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 6:14:11 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ah Ah Yes - Printing to PDF on 64 Bit I think in the long run, that will be bad for a couple of reasons: 1. Subscription models tend to keep you tied to a vendor. 2. Vendors are not pushed to bring better features out (and I realize one could argue the opposite). 3. My big gripe; updates and changes are incremental and continual and you have no control over them. There is less of a need for a vendor to get it right up-front "we'll fix that in the next update", so I believe software quality will suffer. As far as the no control, if an update breaks something you use, too bad, your stuck. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 03:09 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ah Ah Yes - Printing to PDF on 64 Bit Hi Jim Is that good or bad? Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Dettman" <jimdettman at verizon.net> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:10:33 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ah Ah Yes - Printing to PDF on 64 Bit Actually, seems I was mistaken...while the video presentation refers to on-going support being a "service", Windows is still going on the one-time buy license model. I think though it will only be a matter of time before it ends up on the subscription model. That's the direction their going with everything and the way their pitching it feels like the warm-up to that. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 08:03 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ah Ah Yes - Printing to PDF on 64 Bit Yeah, that's one thing that has always driven me nuts with MS; they never go back and fix anything in a prior release. My take is, if you produce a product with a given feature set, that feature set should work. New features should drive new releases, not the fact that you need to get a fix for what your currently on. But the whole thing is shifting anyway with the advent of the subscription model. And if any of you aren't keeping up, Windows will now be the same way: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/01/21/the-next-generation-of-w indows-windows-10/ Watch the video presentation at http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/ Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 08:11 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ah Ah Yes - Printing to PDF on 64 Bit Hey All Not wanting to repeat myself. But ACCESS requires workarounds of workarounds of workarounds. What happened to the good old days. MS Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Tony Septav Nanaimo, BC Canada -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bob Walsh Sent: January-21-15 4:43 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Printing to PDF on 64 Bit This is also an issue on Access 2010. I had the same issue two weeks ago. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:49 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Printing to PDF on 64 Bit This one case so perfectly depicts why it's so brutally difficult to create solutions using Access or any Microsoft Office component that is VBA-driven: You've GOT to use compiler directives to effectively handle all of the variances and exceptions for the various releases. #IF ACCESS2013 Then #ELSE #END IF > > DoCmd.OpenReport "rptSurvey", acPreview, , , acHidden > DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, "rptSurvey", > "PDFFormat(*.pdf)", strFullName, False, "", , acExportQualityPrint > DoCmd.Close acReport, "rptSurvey", acSaveNo > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com IMPORTANT NOTE: The information contained in this message may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. 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