All: I'm no stranger to voicing my observed professional opinion regarding MV (or other topics) to see where my opinions lie with everyone else.
Perhaps I'm fortunate in that my 15 or so clients are pretty content with their current MV systems, despite how far out of the 'norm' they may be. While I speak for myself, I'm sure that the accumulated opinion of my clients still bodes well for their green screens. None are in technical businesses. A few are in manufacturing, publishing, distribution and other tangible businesses. Theirs is a gradual evolution in that new ideas may take a while before they can be applied to their companies. As many will offer flames, I cannot pepper every conversation with my clients on the latest and greatest technologies. I've been down that road and it ain't as easy as many of the others on this forum may expect. This may throw down the gauntlet as many may feel that I'm dropping the ball and not being the best for my clients. How can I be doing such a bad thing for my clients when my average tenure with them is 10 years and I pretty much remain until they get acquired or go out of business. Only 2 exist that have retired their MV systems for something else. I don't feel that I'm inhibiting my own growth as I truly wonder what direction to invest my vocations in. I don't want to endeavor into the new languages, especially java or <dot>net as I don't want to compete with every 22 year old fresh college graduate for those jobs. I'm already making money with my VB project and if all goes well, I could feasibly ramp up to this project generating 50% of my current income. While VB may not be the latest and greatest, it is an example of the client (customer) not really caring what's under the hood. They like my car. Thanks Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 4:07 PM Subject: RE: MV Books (Formerly: [U2] Incubator - News from the board) > ----- Original Message ----- > > Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:50:13 -0700 > > From: "Tony Gravagno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: MV Books (Formerly: [U2] Incubator - News from the board) > > > > Mark wrote: > > > ... Upon the first day they > > > would quickly drop the course as MV offers neither > > > > > an entertainable/WYSIWYG environment > > > > For reference, MSDE has/had no UI either but it's used in many > > environments. > > I think you will find that MSDE is outdated. Its replacement, SQL/Express > has a very nice GUI interface for connection/database management, and ad-hoc > query development. Also the 2GB database limit has changed to 4GB. Then > again, to compare even MSDE to MV, you would probably need a cut-down > version of MV made up of just the file system and the query language. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
