Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Oct 14 02:33:10 CDT 2004
Hi Jim > OTOH, all the .NET sessions showed new features that are "just like > Access" so one has to wonder what is the true direction. Also at > Alison Balter's pre-conference session "M$ Access Development" she > showed a few apps that connected to SQL data. One attendee noted > that she was using mdbs and asked why she wasn't using an ADP. She > neatly sidestepped the issue that has come up on this list in recent > days and simply stated "MDB is the file format that M$ is standing > behind and promoting the use of". Of course this is just me > paraphrasing but you get the gist of what is being said here. Well, after all wasn't the ADP concept a misunderstanding contradicting the original mission of Access "to be the key to access any source of data"? /gustav