[AccessD] Tony's comments

Add to that

the 'free' run-time facility for 'users'
and the multi-user security
and the forms development

JimB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tony's comments


> LOL, and yet... what power user understands normalization?  VBA?  Object 
> models?  ADO vs DAO? etc ad nasium.
>
> John W. Colby?
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> On 2/21/2013 7:42 AM, Jim Dettman wrote:
>>    You need to be fair here; Microsoft has never said Access is a 
>> developers
>> tool nor marketed it as such.
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David McAfee
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 06:26 PM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tony's comments
>>
>> But Access was too good of a tool. MS has been wanting to kill it for 
>> years.
>> Actually more like dumb it down, make it a power user tool rather than a
>> developer tool.
>>
>> MS would rather have developers using Visual Studio.
>>
>> D
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, James Button
>> <jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:
>>
>> <<snip>>
>>
>
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