[AccessD] Access or not as platform

I'd have to agree.  Your development time is only a couple of weeks
longer but you'll end up on a platform you can feel more confident will
be around in a few years.  We've been an Access house probably since
this company was very young (it's over 20 years old now) but given some
recent threads about the future of Access as a developer tool I've been
rethinking that (other reasons as well but this is certainly a driver).

We've been developing some .NET stuff for web and winforms and a move
for my team to .NET is not out of the question.  Access will still be
around as BE tool here but SQL has been the db of choice for the past
couple of years.


Jim DeMarco

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Marcel,

If I had the choice, I'd probably do it in .Net with a SQL back-end (or
Access if SQL is not an option).  Remember, you can get SQL 2005 Express
for free.  With .Net, you have access to the latest technologies and
there is some really nice stuff in .Net that would be difficult in
Access or VB 6.
You also have a choice of language(s) to use.

As for the large run time, you would have a large runtime in .Net or in
VB 6 also.  SO I would not worry about the runtime aspect of it, unless
they are using ancient PCs.

Bobby

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Hi Group,
I am wondering on which platform to develop a new application. This app
should handle archiving and searching for documents, scans and emails
(like hummingbird but the lite version :-). I would like to store
document information and a link to the psychical document on the server.

I can do this rapidly in Access with my framework and knowledge (about 4
weeks)
I can do this rapid in vb6 (about (5 weeks) i can do this in c# (about 6
weeks) Any suggestions which platform to choose. Because of integration
i like access but deployment is not that good because of the large
runtime?
c#, .net is the future platform.

Any suggestions, help, tips to help me solve this issue would be
welcome. 

tnxs, marcel

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