Re: Converting Access database to SQL server or Informix

Tim Uckun wrote in message <35a58b00.0@news.bigsky.net>... >I think his point was that Java has stronger support for distributed >applications. >As far as why you would want to learn another language well I guess you >don't HAVE to learn anything new at all. You could stick with VB all your >life if you want to. <snip> You may be on shaky ground there Tim. Bricklayers Maybe. They are still laying bricks the same way since they built the Ziggurats; - but in this industry ? I can't name one Cobal or Fortran programmer who hasn't had to learn another language and is till working within the original bounds. Everything is evolving at an alarming rate. If you don't constantly update your knowledge and skills in this industry you are dead. Where is an Access 2.0 programmer going to be in 2 years if s/he doesn't know Vb and SQL Server? And 2 more years when its all moving into COM / DCOM. ? If someone doesn't constantly want to update your skills (and I'm talking 5 - 10 hours per week here) then I don't think this is the industry for them. Experience quickly becomes lethargic and redundant to be overtaken by eager youth trained in the latest and straining at the bit move on. Such is the treadmill we are on. Henry Craven H_Craven@bigpond.com --------------------------- " " ------------------------- Marcel Marceau