[AccessD] ADP vs Access mdb/SQL

I thought 95 was similar to 97, and I am sure 97 won't run on anything less
then Windows 95.  So I doubt 95 would run on 3.1, but who knows, I never saw
Access 95.

I'm sure 2.0 is still widely used, but I am also sure that there are a LOT
of 97 users.  I've talked to people in a lot of companies, that have ALL
stuck with 97.  I'm sure 97 will eventually dwindle.  In our case, we talked
about moving to Office 2000 for quite some time, but now XP has been out for
a while.  The big hesitation with 2k, was Access.  Now the issue is money.
The other Office applications look far too tempting to be hassled with the
issues of upgrading Access.  (Not too mention that we have very few actual
Access .mdbs that are either stand alone, or FE's, so shifting to a new
version of Access will not involve many 'conversions' at all.  (On top of
that, our two big ones now have a psuedo web interface....so they would
almost be 'impervious' to an upgrade too....)

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Harkins [mailto:harkins at iglou.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:13 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] ADP vs Access mdb/SQL


Gustav, I think you might be surprised at the number of folks still running
2.0 or even 95. Did 95 run on 3.x? I'm too old to clutter up my head with
details, but we tend to think of Access as a development tool and that
leaves out a huge group -- tons and tons of single owner users that aren't
all that concerned with upgrading and keeping current.

We use to survey readers each time MS released and upgrade, and I'd say that
about 25% of the group wouldn't upgrade -- and had no intentions of ever
upgrading. I really can't say how well subscribers represented the Access
owners at large though. It often took people a couple of years to upgrad and
by then they were facing an even newer release. I think there are more 2.0
users out there than we might realize.

Susan H.


> I think Access 11 is not going to run on anything older then 98...not 3.1.
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:21 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] ADP vs Access mdb/SQL
>
>
> Hi Susan
>
> As far as I know, Access 1.x and 2.0 are the only versions that run on
> Windows 3.1x. So that shock - moving from Win 3.1x to a Win32 platform
> - will only happen for those moving now from Access 2.0 and lower
> (running on Win 3.1x!) to Access 95 or higher.
>
> How many could that be??
> Is any member of this list running Access 2.0/Win 3.1x exclusively?
> Please step forward.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> > Well, a shock for anyone still using Win 3.1 -- can't. You have to
upgrade
> > Windows to use Access 11.
>
> > Susan H.
>
>
> >> Are you sure about Access 11?
> >>
> >> Quoting Mike Gunderloy,
> >> Developer Central #24: Office 2003 First Impressions and more!
> >>
> >> "Access has no significant changes from Access 2002. It's not an
exciting
> >> time to be an Access developer. I'm revising one Access book for the
new
> >> version, but don't expect to do much other work with it."
> >>
> >> /gustav
> >>
> >>
> >> > And what  if it is? Think about it guys -- although some conversions
> are
> >> > more work than others, and certainly Access 11 is going to be a shock
> >> > (and Access 12 even more so) for a few still running older
> >> > versions on W 3.1, has
> >> > MS ever really just left you hanging? Well, maybe it has <g>, I
> probably
> >> > shouldn't ask when I don't really know the answer.
>
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