July
1999
News
- Bug
eats Access data
- Take
Notes of BA
- From
Aluminium to Copper
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Bug
eats Access data
MS admits to an Access
program error that can lose data.
If the user is in a long form within the "Form View" mode and
deletes a database entry in a list and then moves to another record. If
a subsequent record is accessed via the Combo Box, the program does not
recognise that the first record has been deleted. Any changes made might
actually take effect on the last listed record, rather than the intended
target.
A get around to ensure data integrity is:
- go to Access Design View
- right-click to open Combo box
- type in "me-requery"
- Save the database
Take
Notes of BA
BA plans to roll-out
Notes to all of its 24000 users. The delay in the release of 5.0 will not
put the roll-out off course. Already > 10000 of BA's employees are using
4.5.
From
Aluminium to Copper
Move over Aluminium,
Copper is on its way. IBM have solved the problem of damaging the silicon
substrata. Copper is a far better conductor of electricity than aluminium
allowing chips to be more power efficient and to run faster. As the interconnects
can be smaller, less metal is needed and production costs are reduced.
Shorties
- MS DNA is gaining
support from Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft.
- SUN abandons full
ISO accreditation for JAVA and goes the European Computer Manufacturers
Association (ECMA) route.
- The Gartner Group
warns against early adoption of the MS Transaction server or COM until
the back end of 2000. The technologies to track are COM+ and Enterprise
Java beans.
- HP abandons its
EMC relationship and heads for the SANs. HP are now working with Hitachi
and integration with their fibre technologies.
- SAP is dabbling
with thinness. The objective is to speed-up deployment and simplify
the implementation. In parallel SAP are offering an IBM mainframe solution,
replacing Oracle with ADABAS. Is this the empire striking back as SAP
returns to its roots?
- Fore systems gets
swallowed by GEC. Nobody seems to know why. Cisco & 3Com will not
lose any sleep - yet!!!!
- Almost 75% of
ERP implementations have failed to deliver the projected business benefits.
Between 50-75% of UK ERP implementations were unsuccessful. Its all
a bit like client / server revisited.
- Day rates dwindle
for SAP experts as the millennium approaches. Many of these highly skilled
experts are coming off projects with nowhere to go - lets hope they
have been saving a lot of their daily fees for a rainy day.
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