Kenneth Ismert
kismert at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 09:35:29 CDT 2009
Ken: >> But the 'programming priesthood' of .NET excludes the talented amateurs John W. Colby: > Ooooohhh so I would be a priest? ;) Nah ... I checked, and we can start you out at Cardinal ;) But seriously, the guy I work for now built his app in Access, and then built his company on that app -- if all that was available was Visual Studio, he never would have done it. There are plenty of people with enough specialized knowledge to make a data-driven application to suit some profitable niche. But, the number of people in that group who can, with no prior DB or programming knowledge, crack a book and build a C#/WinForms/ ADO.NET/SQL Server application is almost zero. The number of them who can get an open source CMS running on a LAMP stack is almost 100%. Microsoft has always ignored Access' suitability as a business-building tool for small entrepreneurs. It is positioning Access as Excel+ for large corporations. Downgrading VBA's role in Access threatens it's unique role in this respect. -Ken