[AccessD] Tony's comments

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 08:21:40 CST 2013


LOL.  That was included in 'Ad Nauseam'

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/21/2013 8:57 AM, James Button wrote:
> Add to that
>
> the 'free' run-time facility for 'users'
> and the multi-user security
> and the forms development
>
> JimB
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tony's comments
>
>
>> LOL, and yet... what power user understands normalization?  VBA?  Object models?  ADO vs DAO? etc 
>> ad nasium.
>>
>> John W. Colby?
>>
>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>> when you do not believe in it
>>
>> On 2/21/2013 7:42 AM, Jim Dettman wrote:
>>>    You need to be fair here; Microsoft has never said Access is a developers
>>> tool nor marketed it as such.
>>>
>>> Jim.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David McAfee
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 06:26 PM
>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tony's comments
>>>
>>> But Access was too good of a tool. MS has been wanting to kill it for years.
>>> Actually more like dumb it down, make it a power user tool rather than a
>>> developer tool.
>>>
>>> MS would rather have developers using Visual Studio.
>>>
>>> D
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, James Button
>>> <jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:
>>>
>>> <<snip>>
>>>
>>
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