Author: Bill Arnold
Posted: 2010-03-04 14:24:41 Link
Have you seen this article, "Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant In Three
Years"?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/google-desktops-will-be-i_n_485415.
html
This is complete foolishness. What will really happen is people will
compartmentalize their information stores between what they want to share on
the Internet and locally controlled databases, completely off-line to the
Internet. This inclination is a trickle today, but as reports of violations
of Internet stored data come across the wire, interest in this kind of
privacy will grow.
Which gets me to FoxPro. Individuals as well as small businesses will need
locally installed database systems for this purpose. Enter ProFox's
competitive advantages over the other solutions, and the stage is set for us
to do better then ever before. It's a gift to FoxPro, if you see that way.
Bill
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Author: Virgil Bierschwale
Posted: 2010-03-04 15:05:27 Link
If people only realized how many people have access to their data and the potential of their data disappearing if the company went bankrupt
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Have you seen this article, "Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant In Three
Years"?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/google-desktops-will-be-i_n_485415.
html
This is complete foolishness. What will really happen is people will
compartmentalize their information stores between what they want to share on
the Internet and locally controlled databases, completely off-line to the
Internet. This inclination is a trickle today, but as reports of violations
of Internet stored data come across the wire, interest in this kind of
privacy will grow.
Which gets me to FoxPro. Individuals as well as small businesses will need
locally installed database systems for this purpose. Enter ProFox's
competitive advantages over the other solutions, and the stage is set for us
to do better then ever before. It's a gift to FoxPro, if you see that way.
Bill
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Author: John
Posted: 2010-03-04 15:36:23 Link
Yeah, and soon computers will be so sophisticated, you won't need
programmers. I think I heard that in the early '90s....
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Author: MB Software Solutions, LLC
Posted: 2010-03-04 17:24:33 Link
Bill Arnold wrote:
> Which gets me to FoxPro. Individuals as well as small businesses will need
> locally installed database systems for this purpose. Enter ProFox's
> competitive advantages over the other solutions, and the stage is set for us
> to do better then ever before. It's a gift to FoxPro, if you see that way.
ProFox...FoxPro....interchangeable I guess. ;-)
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Author: Paul McNett
Posted: 2010-03-04 17:26:55 Link
On 3/4/10 11:24 AM, Bill Arnold wrote:
>
> Have you seen this article, "Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant In Three
> Years"?
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/google-desktops-will-be-i_n_485415.
> html
>
> This is complete foolishness. What will really happen is people will
> compartmentalize their information stores between what they want to share on
> the Internet and locally controlled databases, completely off-line to the
> Internet. This inclination is a trickle today, but as reports of violations
> of Internet stored data come across the wire, interest in this kind of
> privacy will grow.
>
> Which gets me to FoxPro. Individuals as well as small businesses will need
> locally installed database systems for this purpose. Enter ProFox's
> competitive advantages over the other solutions, and the stage is set for us
> to do better then ever before. It's a gift to FoxPro, if you see that way.
I agree that it is foolish to assume complete web domination of all applications,
even in 10 years.
Paul
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Author: Gérard Lochon
Posted: 2010-03-04 17:49:30 Link
>
>
> Have you seen this article, "Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant In Three
> Years"?
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/google-desktops-will-be-i_n_485415.
> html
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Author: Jarvis, Matthew
Posted: 2010-03-04 17:55:29 Link
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> <snip>
> This is complete foolishness. What will really happen is people will
> compartmentalize their information stores between what they want to
share
> on
> the Internet and locally controlled databases, completely off-line to
the
> Internet.
> <snip>
Interesting insight Bill...
Oh the irony.... we've spent the last 30-40 years trying to connect all
these machines together, and it looks like shortly we'll be doing what
we can to keep them apart....
Thanks,
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Author: MB Software Solutions, LLC
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Author: Paul McNett
Posted: 2010-03-04 18:13:00 Link
On 3/4/10 2:55 PM, Jarvis, Matthew wrote:
> Oh the irony.... we've spent the last 30-40 years trying to connect all
> these machines together, and it looks like shortly we'll be doing what
> we can to keep them apart....
I don't think we'll be keeping most machines completely off the network. The
interfaces between computers will be much better defined, and more strictly
controlled, though.
Paul
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Author: Ricardo Aráoz
Posted: 2010-03-04 18:26:39 Link
Paul McNett wrote:
> On 3/4/10 11:24 AM, Bill Arnold wrote:
>
>> Have you seen this article, "Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant In Three
>> Years"?
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/google-desktops-will-be-i_n_485415.
>> html
>>
>> This is complete foolishness. What will really happen is people will
>> compartmentalize their information stores between what they want to share on
>> the Internet and locally controlled databases, completely off-line to the
>> Internet. This inclination is a trickle today, but as reports of violations
>> of Internet stored data come across the wire, interest in this kind of
>> privacy will grow.
>>
>> Which gets me to FoxPro. Individuals as well as small businesses will need
>> locally installed database systems for this purpose. Enter ProFox's
>> competitive advantages over the other solutions, and the stage is set for us
>> to do better then ever before. It's a gift to FoxPro, if you see that way.
>>
>
> I agree that it is foolish to assume complete web domination of all applications,
> even in 10 years.
>
>
I guess the funny word here is 'desktop'. The article talks about phones
and mobile devices as *opposed* to 'desktop'. But if I get a phone, give
it a core duo processor, 8Gs of RAM, a Terabye drive, a big screen and a
good keyboard.... what's the difference with a 'desktop'?
So let's say phones won't have any of those. They will have the
processing power in the web, the storage capability also in the web, but
you will never be able to replace a good screen and a comfortable
keyboard. And there are lots of applications that need those two.
Now if they find a way to pack a big screen and a good keyboard in a
phone, then to us, programmers the fact that it is a phone or a desktop
will not matter. We will open a file at some address, and we will draw a
window in some device, and the languages and OS we'll be using will take
care of the rest.
And as soon as technology advances and they *are* able to pack a core
duo (or whatever) and enough RAM and lots of storage capacity in a
phone, then we are back at square one.
In any case it's all bs talk. If they *really* knew what's coming they
would tell no one considering knowledge is an asset. They are just
trying to impose *their* view of the future (of which they are obviously
uncertain) as a self supporting (???) prophecy.
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