[AccessD] Poll: How many versions of Access are you running o none machine? XPosted

Gustav Brock gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Nov 20 09:46:03 CST 2003


Hi Brett

> I'm still maintaining a handful of A2.0 apps here as well.  I've considered
> upsizing them but haven't found a compelling business reason to do so.
> Plus, they run about 4x the speed of an equivalent A2K app.

I've noticed similar differences in speed.

> I had a client with an invoicing app written using A1, which I avoided.  As
> JC put it, A1 is a steak sauce, not a development platform.

> Most developers avoided A95 like the plague due to its general
> instability/suckyness.

This is not entirely true. We had a client running a major
accounting/invoicing package, four concurrent users, for about five
years without a hitch.
But, of course, this was in a NetWare environment ...

/gustav



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