>>Orginal Post
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>>>>"The candidate will work as an application developer in a small IT >>development team within a global business unit of Aon Corp. The role will >>initially involve maintaining existing xBase (Foxpro) systems and >>perfecting a new Visual Basic and Access application. The candidate will >>eventually work on converting existing xBase programs to a sustainable and >>contemporary platform, possibly one that is remotely accessible."
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>>Where does it say access is the remotely accessible database ? It says that they will be moving to a contemporary platform later....
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>>Rodman
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>You're right. I made an assumption that since they wanted to write a new application using Access, that they must have felt that this was their sustainable and contemporary platform. It's an assumption I probably should not have made, but it's hard to imagine why they would want to write a new app with Access when they're planning to move their xbase programs to a new platform. Sounds too much like planned obsolescence to make work.

That's the part I don't really get too. It's like changing $1 for 4 quarters. I would've said 3 quarters but I don't want to offend Access fans ;-)