[AccessD] ADP vs Access mdb/SQL

Hi Susan

> Gustav, I think you might be surprised at the number of folks still running
> 2.0 or even 95.

No, we have clients here running 2.0 apps on everything from Win95 to
WinXP. It runs extremely stable - actually I can't remember a
breakdown for years. On the other hand we have no clients running Win
3.1x.

> Did 95 run on 3.x?

No. It was pushed as a 32 bit version of Access for Windows 95.
Contrary to the rumors it can run very stable (a client had one
running with four users for five years without a single issue) but as
Access 95 was so quickly replaced by Access 97 that you hardly see any
Access 95 apps any more.
It's like Access 1.x and 2.0 - Access 1.x apps are very rare because
they are easily converted to 2.0.

/gustav


> 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.