Re: [PLUG] Netraverse LUG Sponsorship Program

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

A former employer of mine /talked/ about moving anyone who depends on a 
database off of PC-based applications and onto the big Oracle system 
under the control of real developers.  Makes sense mostly.  The Oracle 
system has DBAs, developers, administrators, and *backups*.  On the down 
side people would have to depend on another group of people to find the 
time to make their databases.  Still, I'd feel more comfortable if an 
important lump of data wasn't dependant on some regular employee using 
Access, for example.

At least with MySQL or PostgreSQL the database is on a server which 
should be maintained be a real administrator.

W. Chris Shank wrote:

> Depending on the size of the Corp and the utility of the Acess DB, that
> company has tied themselves to MS. Typically, Access isn't just used as a
> fancy spreadsheet. It has forms and queries and reports. I would recommend
> to the client that they migrate this app off Access, maybe as part of
> their linux migration. Now, if a company was committed to getting off MS,
> they may seriously consider this. Or if the Access DB was used at a
> departmental level and there was a corporate decree to go to linux (yeah
> right) then maybe win4Lin would be plausible. But I would see that as a
> temporary solution. If there was such a decree and I was a manager - I
> would request a budget to migrate the Access app.
>  


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