Re: Question on conversion to ADP

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"Sylvain Lafontaine" <sylvain aei ca (fill the blanks, no spam
please)> wrote in news:eppt20mSJHA.1148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

It's hard to believe that MS itself is taking Access seriously
when there is not even any certification for it.

I think your point of view is belied by the actions of the Access
development team in the recent time frame. Access has a new life
both as end-user tool and as developer platform, precisely because
of the decisions made in preparation for Access 2007.

Seems to me that MS has almost returned to the point of view about
Access that it had c. Office 95/97, where they were pushing Office
as a development platform for small and medium-sized businesses. MS
went way, way off track with Office 2000 and Access 2000, in my
opinion, and it's taken them this long to get back to the right
path.

In my opinion, ADPs were a bad idea based on stupid prejudices
rather than technical merit/need, and not really a
properly-implemented development platform. The development of ADPs
sapped resources that should have gone into the core Access
application. The fact that ADPs really are dead now (thankfully)
just points out the waste of resources. How much better Access could
have been for all users if they'd not been led down the garden path
by the crazy Enterprise development ideas that mostly came from
irrational fear of Jet.

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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
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