[dba-Tech] The big change

Hello Arthur and Rocky,

Funny, I was reaching for the like button on these two email from you both
only to realise I am in my email :)




On 10 September 2013 00:08, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:

> Longfellow:
>
> And the night shall be filled with music,
> And the cares that infest the day,
> Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
> And quietly steal away."
>
> Beautiful. Guy had a real way with words, didn't he?
>
> R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 3:55 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The big change
>
> Jim,
>
> I agree with most of what you said and some of what your citations said.
> Clearly the marketplace has shifted, and we dinosaurs who put on our
> blinkers and see the rapidly-dimishing market for desktop apps
> (irrespective
> of programming language)... I for one Refuse to die in the asphalt
> tar-sands. Thank God for Alpha Anywhere to lead me out of these tar-sands.
> Were it not for that company, I would fold my tent and steal away like
> Arabs
> in the night (that's not a slur but a vaguely recollected poem or story
> from
> Rudyard Kipling, or possibly someone else; memory fails, in direct
> proportion to age).
>
> A.
>
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