[AccessD] Access 2007 Question

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



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