On 30 jun, 20:09, Rich P <rpng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I started out in this business as a younster fresh out of college with
> Dbase3+. =A0When Access came out - it was revolutionary! =A0It still is
a
> great product, but the sphere of influence has diminished - depending on
> the usage. =A0For example, I am a member of a flying club which uses an
> Access2000 DB to manage stuff. =A0I was approached about stepping the
> system up to sql server/.Net. =A0But since our system is basically
single
> user with no web interaction (we have a website but fairly static) I
> decided that sql server/.net would be overkill and not worth the hassel
> of maintaining. =A0But for large scale operations of a cor****ate
business
> with 1000s or more clients and a lot of data manipulation/web ops,
> scheduled stuff, multiple users, Re****ting... the Access paradigm is not
> robust enough, not consistent enough, lacks flexibility... Thus, the new
> (newer) generation of data management came out -- .Net. =A0
>
> Granted that Access is still the big money maker because it can be used
> by a significantly wider range of users than .Net since you don't have
> to be a programmer to use Access where .Net requires not only a
> programming background but an OOP programming background. =A0This
narrows
> the market considerably. =A0But like Access, .Net is still much easier
to
> use than Java. =A0So, for Cor****ate level Rapid Application Development
> (RAD), .Net is pretty hard to beat.
>
> Rich
>
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Although I didn't mean to start the "Access is great vs Access is
garbage" discussion I can't resist to state that I use .Net for a
number of years now and I am a big fan of it; it's a great environment
to build stable applications of all kinds and it's possible to learn
without programming 24x7. But... Access is still my nr 1 as it comes
to prototyping, creating a local small datacentric app or creating a
frontend on a backend like Sqlserver or Oracle when there's not much
time. And that is the case more often as you would like it to be.... A
Belgium firm once told me their price for an app was 35% when they
could use Access versus using VB at the time. Of course it depends on
the cir***stances and the skills of the developper, but in my case the
figures are still about the same when I can choose between Access
and .Net tools. So IMO just saying that ''Access is rubbish" says more
about the speaker than about the product. There=B4s more than just the
beauty of the lines of code that makes a product usable or not.
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