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  Sell my database design varriola2012@gmail.com - 2014-04-27 15:28 -0700
    Re: Sell my database design "Access Developer" <accdevel@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 15:36 -0500
      Re: Sell my database design The Frog <Mr.frog.to.you@googlemail.com> - 2014-04-30 11:45 +1000
        Re: Sell my database design BrianDP <bdp222@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 07:27 -0700

#9301 — Sell my database design

I created a database in Microsoft Access to track job applications. I will wonder if someone knows how to sell it online?

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#9305

SourceForge would be a good place to make it available for free -- several 
Open Source licenses are available.

Selling Access applications online has always been problematical. In the 
past, several "exchanges" have been tried, but none lasted long. One problem 
has been that the security provided by Access over the years is so easy to 
penetrate. It was easy for someone to break security and pass your 
application around to their friends and acquaintances.

I've had a "long run" with Access, from Access 1.0 until now, but all the 
paying work I did was "bespoke systems" for individual customer companies... 
in most cases, the reason they had custom software instead of "canned 
software" was that their way of doing business was unique within their niche 
(and other companies wouldn't have wanted to change their way of doing 
business to conform, if they had marketed it).

Sorry I don't have better news; maybe someone else has a way.  If so, I'd 
like to know it.

 -- 
 Larry Linson
    (One of the original offical approvers for creation of 
comp.databases.ms-access, 1993)
    (Microsoft MVP for Access 2003-2014)
    Co-Author, Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions, Wiley 2010

<varriola2012@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>I created a database in Microsoft Access to track job applications. I will 
>wonder if someone knows how to sell it online? 

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#9309

Just a thought: perhaps the fact the application is made in Access is 
irrelevant. Maybe just sell it as software. It has features and 
benefits to its use, so pitch it directly to the target customers. 
They'll tell you soon enough if they are interested.

-- 
Cheers

The Frog

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#9316

On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:45:56 PM UTC-4, The Frog wrote:
> Just a thought: perhaps the fact the application is made in Access is 
> 
> irrelevant. Maybe just sell it as software. It has features and 
> 
> benefits to its use, so pitch it directly to the target customers. 
> 
> They'll tell you soon enough if they are interested.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
> The Frog

Haha.. Yeah.. I notice Most companies that DO use access as an integral part of their program - I'm thinking E2 in particular - but I've seen others - do NOT mention the fact that they use Access as part of the structure because it's not viewed as a "real" database by some.  Not me of course, I dig access with a spoon!

-Brian

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