[AccessD] Interesting Access article

[Jim Dettman]

<< I mean what would stop them from terminating Access ?It's not like there is a huge set of user-groups out there.If MSFT wanted to terminate it, then they could easily do that.>>

 I think you might be surprised.   There are millions of Access based apps out there, but most fly under the radar.   

 The main problem with terminating it is that they have nothing to replace it with.

Jim.

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re: "I also took exception to some of the author's other statements in that 
article.  As one example, "Microsoft has made more than one attempt to 
terminate it."  I do not believe that is true.
Regards
Steve"
Totally agree. I mean what would stop them from terminating Access ?It's not like there is a huge set of user-groups out there.If MSFT wanted to terminate it, then they could easily do that.
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>He has missed the point entirely.
>
>Access is not a database!
>
>Access is a very powerful Rapid Application Development environment which can use its own
>native database format (Microsoft Jet) or any number of  robust  RDBMSs.
>
>The statement "These statistics almost certainly overstate the popularity of Access" is 100%
>wrong.  A number of those Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL segments of the pie chart will be
>using Access as an application FE.
>
>I've been building complex Access applications using SQL Server and MySQL as the
>database for years.
>
>
>On 31 Oct 2019 at 8:45, jack drawbridge wrote:
>
>>  Just saw this discussed on a few forums.
>>  Interesting article on Access's continued survival.
>>  <https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-s
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