[AccessD] Future of Microsoft Access

Unless of course you used C# to create it.  Then about 3/4 of the work would be done already.  So 
that would only leave 10 man years.

;)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Mark Simms wrote:
>> Maybe a bunch of us should look at Access 2000,  or 2003,
>> see what it does and create a spec.,  to create something
>> like Access, but in the open  source environment.  Sort of
>> like the start of  the IBM PC clones from the 1980s and 1990s.
>> It would be a huge undertaking.
> 
> You bet. You have no idea of what you are looking at.
> Example: MSFT's PerformancePoint server software has minimal marketshare
> right now...
> But it is garnishing a lot of interest because of the demise of Hyperion
> which was bot by Larry Elison's Oracle, Inc. only to reduce the competition
> it had created for His product.
> PerformancePoint was about 40 MAN YEARS in the making.
> 
> Figure about half of that for an Access clone ?
> With 8 good programmers, see you in 2012-2013 then ?
> 
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