[AccessD] Help with an Access web app -- finding records without matching related records

[Jim Lawrence]

Program users have advanced over the years. They have, in many cases found themselves stuck with expensive software and no company to support it...whether the hosting company is demanding the client upgrade or the host company has just disappears. 

I would bore you with a full list of how many software companies, especially database manufactures that have gone broke. Here is a few names just for interest; DBase, Revelations, SuperBase, Clipper, FoxBase, Smartware, Clarion, Angoss and so and so on and so on...and even MS Access is leaving by the side entrance. Any business who has been around for the last twenty or so years has seem all these wonderful database applications crash and burn and often as not have had to buy yet another database product and re-tool their entire company.  

Business have finally had enough. They don't want to pay anymore for some company who will, even with the best intentions, leave them holding the bag, yet once again. The most dangerous packages, in the market today are proprietary niche software. Most big companies avoid that type of software like the plague. The most educated companies are looking for good host companies who as well as are making an excellent product also open source their code. Companies feel much safer just paying monthly service fees and knowing ultimately, they will have a backup in case disaster strikes. A prime example is RedHat/Connical (service companies) and along with Postgress, MongoDB, Neo and ElasticStretch(sp?).

Application development companies who initially shunned this approach have realized that by open sourcing their products they have quickly acquired a large user base, third party code testing, third party help, a very loyal following, product adoption from companies who would never give them a second look and have enjoyed a very steady profit stream from monthly/yearly service fees. 

The era when a company made a proprietary application, marketed it and then supported it between version development cycles and if positioned correctly, made massive profits...are gone. That train has left the station and it is never coming back. Even Microsoft understand it and they were one of the last bastions of proprietary locked-down software.

Alpha Anywhere sounds like a wonderful product and definitely worth investigating. But it is old-school and if I was still in the business, selling a company on a database's quality from a small niche supplier, in this day and age would be née impossible.  Businesses want to hear source companies are large, well established and/or their application are OS. 

Jim
       
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 7:31:19 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Help with an Access web app -- finding records without matching related records

Jim Dettman's words are worth additional emphasis. There is no such beast
as an Access app for the web. Period. As I've stated before, the fastest
route from A(ccess) to B (web) is Alpha Anywhere. No other product even
vaguely compares. Write once, deploy anywhere -- smart phone, tablet,
traditional browser -- no changes, no code to detect the platform, none of
that. It's all handled for you.

Arthur

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