[AccessD] Access Solutions Drilldown

In all my recent dealings with MS they continually refer to Access as a tool 
for the tech savvy knowledge worker. I and a number of others are continually 
saying this is crap. I think they are deaf and stupid.

Martin


Quoting Charlotte Foust <cfoust at infostatsystems.com>:

> Yeah, I filled it out.  I put a resounding NO in that one.  They're
> looking at going back to the ODT like Access 2, and I've heard rumors
> that was what was in store for either Office 11 or Office 12.  I
> suspect
> some genius is again thinking that only amateur level development is
> done in Access so they're trying to allow every off body with $300 to
> spare to package their creations.  :o{
> 
> Charlotte Foust
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Bartow [mailto:jbartow at earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:57 AM
> To: AccessD
> Subject: [AccessD] Access Solutions Drilldown
> 
> 
> Have any of you filled out the Access Solutions Drilldown?
> 
> I'm on the last page right now and this question seems to be loaded:
> 
> "If the Access runtime and SQL Tools were offered for sale separately
> from the Microsoft Office Developer Edition, would you be willing to
> pay
> $299 for the offering?"
> 
> 
> 
> The last question concerns me. What would the point of the ODE be
> then?
> If you split Runtime and SQL tools from ODE it would cause nothing but
> grief over increased cost for me. If you created an Access Developer
> Edition which incorporates all of the applicable Access ODE
> functionality into a seperate lower cost package I would consider that
> as desirable.
> 
> JB
> 
> 
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