[AccessD] Future of Microsoft Access

 I doubt there is any one software product
 that can cover each and every situation, from
 Mom and Pop operations through to Fortune 500
 companies.

 It is like trying to go to grocery store
 in an eighteen wheeler truck, when compact
 car will do.

 Or haul 15 tons of steel in a compact car.

 However, the range of applications that
 Ms Access can do is impressive.

 MSFT does what MSFT does.  They have their
 agenda, whatever it is.

 Access could compete with some of their
 other products and or future plans.

 If things become too unbearable here is one
 possible course of action.

 Maybe a bunch of us should look at Access 2000,
 or 2003, see what it does and create a spec.,
 to create something like Access, but in the open
 source environment.  Sort of like the start of
 the IBM PC clones from the 1980s and 1990s.

 It would be a huge undertaking.




-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 4:08 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Future of Microsoft Access


I completely agree.  Access is like the leatherman of computer
applications.  Always handy for some jobs, completely useless for
others.  And MS's lack of listening when it comes to hard core
developers, has let some great ideas slip by, and pigeon holed Access a
bit.

I've got tons of examples where Access falls short when it comes to it's
interface.... don't even get me started!

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 12:29 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Future of Microsoft Access

Steve,

We all know you're an Access fan.  I have been too, since I preordered
version 1.0.  That doesn't blind me to the fact that Microsoft, not
developers, has niched Access into a "power user" slot.  Everyone who
has been on this list for a while has made Access stand up and do
tricks.  We KNOW what it can do, but MS has ignored our pleas on behalf
of Access since forever.  That is why the "legend" of Access's demise
persists.  Access will be around, but it gets cosmetic treatments not
true improvements.

Charlotte Foust

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