Tom van Stiphout wrote:[color=blue]
> On Wed, 18 May 2005 17:05:23 GMT, Salad <oil@vinegar.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Salad,
> I mostly agree with you, and it appears Access (better: Jet) is a good
> database for your application. Test your app with realistic work
> loads, and if it performs well, be happy you wrote it in the best RAD
> tool on the planet.[/color]
Yup.
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> I can understand that .Net - centric people shy away from Access: MSFT
> hasn't really made Access an equal player when promoting .Net. Rather
> they focussed mostly on enterprise applications with a SQL Server
> backend. Also they focussed mostly on web apps, where admittedly Jet
> is a minor player, and not designed to handle higher user loads.[/color]
In my case, I see a need in the future to porting the app to SQL server.
...the SQL server to hold data entered from the office and using the
data contained in the server for fetching data in a wireless app using
the web for field workers but not for data entry...IOW separate components.
I appreciate your opinion.
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>
> -Tom.
>
>
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>>Tom van Stiphout wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>On 18 May 2005 03:10:15 -0700,
marslee@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>Your driving instructor never had you drive through that particular
>>>street near the ballpark. Yet after you got your license, and you came
>>>upon that street, you knew how to navigate it.
>>>
>>>-Tom.[/color]
>>
>>Hi Tom,
>>
>>In the movies Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can, Philo
>>Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is harrassed by a degenerate group of losers;
>>the Black Widows Motorcycle club..."known and feared across the land".
>>In one instance, as the members plot their revenge against Philo, the
>>leader of the group realizes he is surrounded by dolts and exclaims "Oh
>>Lord, why have you given me this burden!?!?"
>>
>>Which reminds me of yesterday. My friend had someone at his office and
>>was demonstrating our program. This person has been working with
>>another company and their program is written in FoxPro and is currently
>>being ported to the .Net environment. When the person discovered our
>>program was written in Access, the person exhibited some concern that it
>>was written in Access. I'm not sure what the concern was...perhaps that
>>the person considers Access is a weak database mgt program and is not a
>>.Net app. Is .Net to be known and feared by Access developers or is the
>>person my friend demo'd the program to a dolt that gives us burdens?
>>
>>I ask since the reaction surprised me. This person was shown a very
>>powerful and flexible program. At this point, I think my friend should
>>have told the person intitially it was written in VB simply to calm the
>>nerves instead of Access. I view it irrelevant regarding what language
>>was used to produce an application, it is how useful the application is
>>to the user. As a developer, I might be interested in the environment
>>used to create an app but not much more beyond that. IOW, if an app was
>>created in C++ and another in VB and they both performed the functions I
>>wanted, I really wouldn't care which environment was used to create the app.
>>
>>For these reasons, I really don't don't put much stock in the person's
>>concerns. Our program is not targetted, and never will be, for
>>companies where 100s of users will be accessing it. It is targetted for
>>small companies of 20 persons or less.
>>
>>So...am I wrong? Should I be concerned about an Access app vs a .Net
>>app? If so, why?
>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>>One of the my professor gave final question like this
>>>>
>>>>"How to use Access database in .Net enivronment to keep track of data?"
>>>>
>>>>I have no idea what it is about since he never taught about .NET in the
>>>>lecture.
>>>>Does anyone know the answer?
>>>
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