Hi Peter, On 2/18/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Basically, it is you who impressed the TCO of the current system on your father's firm.
OK, I admit it's partly my fault. But it was not only my decision. It was about 10 years ago, my father consulted an expert and he recommended using Microsoft Access. It was my father who decided to use Access. I developed the application, it took me years and I don't want to do the same work all over again. So I guess we are "stuck" with Access. It's very slow, but it works. If I had to develop the whole application without using Access, it would probably take me thousands of hours, at least. My father would have to pay for all of my time, and it's much more than what he pays Microsoft. So I wouldn't recommend this. By the way, 10 years ago there was no PHP, no MySQL as far as I know, and no alternatives to Access. There was something called Magic, this might have been the only alternative. Even today, I don't know any application which has all the features of Access, and it has many features. But the problem is that Microsoft doesn't want it to be compatible with any non-Windows environment. And it's not. If we were to hire a programmer or company to write the whole application again from scratch, it will probably cost us at least tens of thousands of dollars. And what for? Just so we will be able to say that we use Open Source technology? I don't think so. My father doesn't care about Open Source, he wants the work to be done. And the work is done using Access. Uri. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
