[AccessD] .net

In a word, marketing.  Like everyone else, MS sells sizzle.  SQL Server
and net stuff has sizzle.  Stuff that just gets the job done isn't sexy.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 8:39 AM
To: Charlotte Foust
Subject: Re: [AccessD] .net


Hi Charlotte

So true.
So why don't the MS guys listen to people like you?

/gustav


> Unless common sense rears its ugly head somewhere along the way.  SQL 
> Server and the desktop engine are not the maintenance free, 
> easy-to-use creatures that MS claims.  At least Jet got the job done 
> without needing a dba on tap.

> Charlotte Foust

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Reid [mailto:mwp.reid at Queens-Belfast.AC.UK]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 7:33 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] .net


> I think the true future of Access will not be really known 
> until Access 12 is available. I do know JET and DAO are 
> dead today. No further development of either AFAIK. Could 
> all change but we have to wait and see.

> Lot of confusion it would appear

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