I was reading a few places and calculated bandwidth at a cost of $0.16 per gigabyte of data transfer it costs an ISP to deliver it to your door. I pay $45ish per month, so thats 281.25 GB / month until they break even. To do some quick math that is the equivalent of 3 or 4 of today's modern hard drives, 70 DVD movies or 401 music CD's... and who knows how many iPods!! And to think they want to charge extra for data transfer:o
My advice is to learn Java first, which is what I did for 4 years. I am actually a little unique, I spent 7 years before that using VB3-6 so I'm Microsoft at heart, oh wait... I can hear the boos and roars:)
If you learn Java, you will be able to pickup C# (ASP.NET to run on IIS 5/6 or Windows Forms, even Windows Mobile Forms for Pocket PC 2002/2003) within 6-12 months like I did, and you'll be a double threat.
The Rules are; - Banks love Java. - Mid-size organizations ($1-5 million in sales or inventories) love Microsoft. - You'll score big points with both skillsets.
MySQL database server has caught up to even the big guys DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server in recent years and its a stable, excellent, fast enterprise solution now-a-day. The Query Browser is a nice tool to manage data, run updates and selects, export capabilities to HTML/Excel... as well, MySQL Administrator (as well as MySQL Query Browser) can be accessed over TCP/IP, I can work from remotely on any clients server, as well you can create C# distributed applications that also work great over TCP/IP with a Static IP address.
Best of luck, its a long frusterating road to success. Never quit.
I'm attempting to build Saverpass for B2B and B2C users, its an alternative to PayPal, and I have an XML interface to accept credit cards. Buy, deposit, transfer and take commission (as a third party) on transactions, all through XML Web Services API in SOAP. All the info is on the main page... please email me directly feedback@boomtrek.com if you'd like to partner up.
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I was reading a few places and calculated bandwidth at a cost of $0.16 per gigabyte of data transfer it costs an ISP to deliver it to your door. I pay $45ish per month, so thats 281.25 GB / month until they break even. To do some quick math that is the equivalent of 3 or 4 of today's modern hard drives, 70 DVD movies or 401 music CD's... and who knows how many iPods!! And to think they want to charge extra for data transfer :o
My advice is to learn Java first, which is what I did for 4 years. I am actually a little unique, I spent 7 years before that using VB3-6 so I'm Microsoft at heart, oh wait... I can hear the boos and roars :)
If you learn Java, you will be able to pickup C# (ASP.NET to run on IIS 5/6 or Windows Forms, even Windows Mobile Forms for Pocket PC 2002/2003) within 6-12 months like I did, and you'll be a double threat.
The Rules are;
- Banks love Java.
- Mid-size organizations ($1-5 million in sales or inventories) love Microsoft.
- You'll score big points with both skillsets.
MySQL database server has caught up to even the big guys DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server in recent years and its a stable, excellent, fast enterprise solution now-a-day. The Query Browser is a nice tool to manage data, run updates and selects, export capabilities to HTML/Excel... as well, MySQL Administrator (as well as MySQL Query Browser) can be accessed over TCP/IP, I can work from remotely on any clients server, as well you can create C# distributed applications that also work great over TCP/IP with a Static IP address.
Best of luck, its a long frusterating road to success. Never quit.
I'm attempting to build Saverpass for B2B and B2C users, its an alternative to PayPal, and I have an XML interface to accept credit cards. Buy, deposit, transfer and take commission (as a third party) on transactions, all through XML Web Services API in SOAP. All the info is on the main page... please email me directly feedback@boomtrek.com if you'd like to partner up.