On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
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"
;-) I can understand that but now it's time to get paid for the pain you
suffered. Many times the 'second' take works much faster and better than
the first, esp. if you did something very common among VB coders (known
as 'spaghetti ad hoc' style). You might even enjoy doing it again.
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.
Access is not exactly the most renowned database product. I wrote some
options you had then. Perl and web based applications were possible by
then.
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.
Then, use Access.
Peter
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