On 7/10/07, Ken Dibble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps the defining consideration is, what sort of organization is it? > There are literally millions of organizations in the world that can use > customized database software that do not and will never have a traveling > salesperson, a London office, or a need for people to walk around with > crackberries glued to their fingers.
Sure. I made my living for fifteen years writing those apps. We still support a bunch of them. > These are the organizations for whom > web applications provide nowhere near enough benefit to compensate for > their eternally clunky, slow, and inflexible nature. How long does it take your app to boot? How long does it take to navigate to a web site? Web development has not stood still. Well written web apps are fast, smooth and flexible. It's a horse race, and that's a good thing - everyone improves. Clients are running wickedly fast CPUs, more memory and disk space are becoming standard, and loading great big runtimes in a browser has become more reasonable. > This is where desktop apps are needed, it's the arena toward which VFP was > targeted, and it's a huge market that now no longer has a single major > player serving it. There will always be a place for more than one kind of app, and that's a Good Thing. I am really looking forward to an opportunity to deploy a dabo app, for just those reasons. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
