[AccessD] Access News

Gustav Brock gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Oct 14 02:33:10 CDT 2004


Hi Jim

> OTOH, all the .NET sessions showed new features that are "just like
> Access" so one has to wonder what is the true direction.  Also at
> Alison Balter's pre-conference session "M$ Access Development" she
> showed a few apps that connected to SQL data.  One attendee noted
> that she was using mdbs and asked why she wasn't using an ADP.  She
> neatly sidestepped the issue that has come up on this list in recent
> days and simply stated "MDB is the file format that M$ is standing
> behind and promoting the use of".  Of course this is just me
> paraphrasing but you get the gist of what is being said here.

Well, after all wasn't the ADP concept a misunderstanding
contradicting the original mission of Access "to be the key to access 
any source of data"? 

/gustav




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