[AccessD] I just gotta vent

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 16:49:06 CST 2013


Yea, I agree Charlotte.  IBM doesn't like Access but they also consider web (browser) based apps a 
security weakness FWICT.  So while they do actively discourage Access, they replace it with another 
desktop app, in C# or java.

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 12/13/2013 5:41 PM, Charlotte Foust wrote:
> Jim,
>
> It may take a bit more killing IMO.  I've got a division of a State of
> California governmental department that specified an Access database so
> they could avoid the problems their parent department encountered (and
> presumably still encounter) with a large IT-sanctioned system design.
>   These guys wanted to learn from their department's mistakes.
>
> Charlotte
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>>   I got the same thing here.  It's only triggered if the form displays no
>> records at all (part I missed in my earlier tests).
>>
>> <<
>> Which tells me that they haven't decided that bugs are an important
>> thing to work on, even in 2013.
>>   Only if it is on the web side.
>>
>>   Development on the desktop side is dead if anyone hasn't figured it out
>> already.
>>
>> Jim.
>>



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