Re: MS Access

From	Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: MS Access
Date	2024-08-08 07:50 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 12:38:00 +0100, Philip Herlihy wrote:
> 
>> I think it's one of Microsoft's greatest achievements ...
> 
> Calling Access “one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements” ... not the kind 
> of “praise” they would find flattering, I think ...

Am no fan of access, but to be fair to MS it fills a niche nothing else
comes close to filling. Many, many a small business is held together by an
Access database or app. 

Problem for MS is that so many people are dependent on that they can't
abandon it and there's no real up-sell path either.

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                Re: MS Access sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2024-08-14 18:22 -0500
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                Re: MS Access Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-09 06:32 +0000
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                Re: MS Access candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-23 22:00 +0000
                Re: MS Access Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-11 09:06 +0000
                Re: MS Access "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-07 21:39 -0400
                Re: MS Access Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-08 03:12 +0000
                Re: MS Access "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-12 00:23 -0400
                Re: MS Access Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-12 08:39 +0000
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                Re: MS Access Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-08 03:13 +0000
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