[DUG] List working?

[Alister Christie]

We have customer running some old software written in DataFlex and they 
have been paying us monthly for years.  We had thought that they had 
stopped using the software and just forgotton about the AP or something, 
but the got in touch the other week, and they are still using it.

We may have done a Y2K upgrade on it - but I'm not certain, so we had 
had no contact for at least 6 years.

There are some merrits for subscription based software (for the vendor 
atleast).

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington


David Brennan wrote:
> We have a customer in Christchurch who has been running an old VB4 version
> of our software with multiple client machines connecting to an Access 2.0
> (32 bit) database. They have been running the software for about 7 or 8
> years. 
> 
> We tend to forget they are there... because they have never once called with
> a problem of any sort.
> 
> Not saying you are going to be that lucky every time and part of the reason
> we don't hear from them may be that the program has startup code for
> attempting auto-recovery from corrupted databases. But Access <can> be
> surprisingly fast and reliable.
> 
> David.
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
> Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
> Sent: Thursday, 16 March 2006 3:16 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] List working?
> 
> Don't be dim James are you saying that Access is not intended for DB 
> applications, The assertion that its ok  and was designed for "single 
> user desktop style" apps and not anything more is crap if it wasn't 
> intended for " multi user environment" then it shouldn'd effing well 
> support it (badly or otherwise) should it?
> 
> Neven
> 
> James Sugrue wrote:
> 
>>The problem isn't with Access, the problem is people using Access for
> 
> things
> 
>>it's not really intended for. 
>>Access is fine - and I use it all the time - for single user desktop style
>>applications. It's when it gets used in a multi user environment things
> 
> can
> 
>>be a problem, especially when combined with bad design or programming.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
> 
> On
> 
>>Behalf Of Maurice Butler
>>Sent: Thursday, 16 March 2006 8:28 a.m.
>>To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
>>Subject: RE: [DUG] List working?
>>
>>Hi,
>>If you want to know how bad Mickysoft Access is ask any school that runs
>>musac - this is a student manager program that spends more time being
> 
> fixed
> 
>>than used.
>>If you want sql, mdse is alright for small apps that need sql & Mickysoft
>>compatablity.
>>
>>Maurice
>>
>>
>>
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