Re: A VB6 fan asks... why do YOU stick with VB6???


"Paul Clement" <UseAdddressAtEndofMessage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im
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Web applications have a couple of major built-in problems.
First they run over a network. When the network is down
(for whatever reason) work stops...
A working *LAN* is essential for a flawless working IT-User/Office-
Environment (not only for http-based Apps) nowadays. The term
"WebApp" doesn't mean "Public Internet" automatically (at least in
my understanding).

Second, is accessibility and security to data.
Again - no problem in a LAN/Intranet.
And also no problem, if your Hardware/App-or WebServer
(public to the Internet) is secured using the usual, well established
mechanisms (VPNs, SSH or SSL).

You would have to be pretty foolish to be trafficking your
data back and forth across the Internet to an entity such as
Google in order to use an online spread*** application.
Seems you misunderstood all I was writing. I was talking about
new trends, new technologies, mentioning the current Google-
WebApps as nice *Examples* for what we should expect in
this very promising area over the next years - I was not talking
about adoption of this techniques by ASPs (Application-
Service-Providers) - that's another (also interesting) story.

These outfits are not banks or financial institutions, they're
software vendors that could go away in a heartbeat leaving
you and/or your business without business tools and
accessibility to your data.
LOL- if you take your own "arguments" seriously, then you
should quit working with MS-Tools and -Services instantly.

The adoption of Linux on the desktop hasn't made any
headway in the last several years.
At least here in europe there are other trends. Nearly every
regional government has a conversion-plan (or at least discusses
this topic), to convert to Linux, OpenSource and OpenDocument-
Standards over the next years.

There are several reasons why. First is support for major
applications. Lags way behind Windows.
OpenOffice, Gimp, FireFox, ThunderBird, Evolution, Apache,
OpenExchange, NX-Terminal-Services, XEN-VMs, - nearly
every "major application" has its open and free counterpart.
The only reason to use the WinOS further are the (still) great
UserBase and the Direct3D-based Games - but there is
already Cedega, wich allows more and more Direct3D-games
to run on Linux.

Second, too many user interfaces as Vincent mentioned.
As I said, there are only two large GUI-Toolkits running on
top of X11. And their differences are by far much smaller than
the GUI-Differences between OfficeXP and the upcoming
MS-Office.

Non-standardization is a very bad thing in this instance.
Great, and this sentence spoken by an MS-addict.

Third, vendor stability and the fact that is often ends up
costing more to actually support "open source" products.
*yawning*

Olaf


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