[dba-Tech] Emerald Bay and Access

My guess is that Stan Leszynski influenced MS Access a lot as he did RBase
before:

"1987: Wrote R:Tools utility and sold it to Microrim.  This became the
bestselling developer toolset ever for R:BASE."
...
"1992: Recruited by Microsoft to review and test Microsoft Access early
alpha.  Became the first solution provider to build Access applications."

...

http://www.leszynski.com/abtHistory.htm

Every professional  VBA developer knows and uses LRNC and "MS Access 97
Expert Solutions" is no doubt the best book on MS Access development...

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 6:14 PM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Emerald Bay and Access


> "RBase by Microrim. In the mid-80's Microsoft negotiated to merge with
> Microrim for 25% of Microsoft stock. The deal fell through because
Microrim
> held out for 30%. As a further irony, the basic design of Access was
created
> by a group of ex-Microrim programmers."
>
> About that time I had a support contract without MicroRim. I kept getting
a
> new guy on the other end of the phone every time I called, which in those
> days was unusual. One day I got someone that was quite high in the company
> for support. I thought it was very weird. I asked him about all the
changes
> and he bitterly said something to the effect that "Microsoft is stealing
all
> of our employees". The next time I called they were gone, closed, kaput.
> Shortly after one of the larger customers bought the rights for Rbase and
> moved everything to Pittsburg. Sad story. Basically corporate espionage. I
> can see the influence they had on Access though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
>
> Interesting note, by the way, on that page about RBase ...
>
> /gustav
>
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