> > The days of standalone apps >> are limited I feel. Apart from that, >Like so much people, some years ago, had the feeling that the internet is >definitly the end of paper and books...;) [Rob's note: & so many >investers had the feeling any Internet startup was a great >investment] >sorry, that will imho not happen soon..
I agree with Wolfgang. I had a long conversation with the programmer of a successful Web application (verifying doctors' accreditations for hospitals), and he agreed with me that not all computer applications are candidates for Web implementation. Specifically, I can't imagine most people wanting to have to log on to some remote computer (and leave their data in other peoples' hands) to perform daily information processing activity (ie: A/P, Purchasing, G/L). Nor would I want to be the IS manager who has to answer his/her CEO's question, "Where is our accounting & sales data located, and who is responsible for its safekeeping?" with "It's on some remote computer we dial up, in the hands of people we never met." A couple of months ago I wrote a utility to load FlexWare customer & sales data into a file for upload to a Web commerce company called Wilnett. The work was completed, but the FlexWare customer rejected it because he "didn't want Wilnett to have access to my customer & price information". So here is a company that wants to have a third party conduct Web commerce for them but doesn't want that party to have access to their customer/price info. That being the case, can you imagine how a small, local business would feel about running it's daily sales/accounting via the Net? -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
