[AccessD] New Software releases Was: ADP vs Access mdb/SQL

I completely agree that things are built to handle the current generation OS
'gaps'.  Access doesn't care if it is reading from an NTFS or FAT.  However,
I was just hypothesizing that a future OS may have a file system that has
capabilities that Access wouldn't know how to use, and they may have to make
it incompatible with older software.  (Such as File system indexing (of
data)....so a db like Access could use the File Systems indexing....)

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus, Scott (GEAE, RHI Consulting)
[mailto:scott.marcus at ae.ge.com]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 5:45 AM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] New Software releases Was: ADP vs Access mdb/SQL


Drew,

<<Software built for the current generation OS is going to be completely
imcompatible.

Why would you think this? I could see it possibly breaking some applications
but
for the most part, programs don't care how files are stored and retrieved by
the
OS. All programs care about are that the "black box" function calls they use
still return the same answer. It matters not how that answer is achieved.
Software that circumvents then OS to accomplish its job probably won't work,
but
API's are a layer that is supposed to hide the details. The whole idea of
the
OS(Windows OS that is) is to keep us from reinventing the wheel. I would say
that changing the file access to SQL server is gonna be more of a concern to
Executive Software, Norton, etc. not the Access developer.

Scott

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