Future of Access

Please clarify for us if the people in your office are saying that Access is
no longer supported by Microsoft or that it is no longer supported by the IT
department in your company.

Some large companies where I have worked do not allow the use of Access.
Their IT departments seem to be overly concerned about data security, IMHO,
and Access is their target. Yet any disgruntled employee can download all
the Excel and other files on their servers onto USB drives and walk out the
door day after day. These folks don't know how to secure Access and they
won't learn.

Some folks don't like Access because you would then be able to develop your
own applications and bypass the IT department's people. If your actions take
out too many of these people, the CIO may also be out of the door. In other
words, your use of Access can be a threat to your IT department and the CIO.

And these folks don't like people knowing how to write a query or do all the
sophisticated operations that Access can do. Soon you'll want to program
SharePoint yourself and retrieve data directly from Oracle.

I actually left a job a year ago because of this mentality. Now I ask
prospective employers before I interview.

David

"StuJol" wrote:

I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
BananaBanana@Republic wrote in news:4BEBE617.3080704@Republic:

4) 64-bit support. Now has both 32-bit and 64-bit version of
Access.

This includes the Jet/ACE database engine, which is a big win for a
lot of users of it who aren't actually using Access itself.

Indeed. Excellent point. Same point is true of VBA itself as well.

I spent part of the day yesterday helping a colleague install a new update
to an Access 2000 application, which I was told has been running for 10
years on that site.

As Access developers we celebrated the release of Access 2010 only a day or
two ago.

Yep, Access itself is HERE TO STAY.

Now, as for being SUPPORTED, that's a different and slightly more complex
question. SUPPORT for a particular VERSION of any software application ends
eventually, but essentially what that means is the company will no longer
provide updates for that version. Just because MS has ended SUPPORT for a
specific version, that doesn't mean every application built on that version
will suddenly go up in flames.

Whenever someone trots out the hoary old "Access is ending" canard, you can
rest assured they are either confused, ignorant, or malicious.

George


"StuJol" wrote:

I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few
years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

"a a r o n . k e m p f @ g m a i l . c o m" wrote

Jet is obsolete and it has been for a decade
move to SQL Server, kid

"Whenever someone trots out the hoary old "Access is ending" canard, you can
rest assured they are either confused, ignorant, or malicious." George

--
Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP
Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley
Access newsgroup support: alive and well - USENET comp.databases.ms-access

On Fri, 14 May 2010 22:16:23 -0500, "Larry Linson"
wrote:

"a a r o n . k e m p f @ g m a i l . c o m" wrote

Jet is obsolete and it has been for a decade
move to SQL Server, kid

"Whenever someone trots out the hoary old "Access is ending" canard, you can
rest assured they are either confused, ignorant, or malicious." George

.... or all three.


--
Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP
Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley
Access newsgroup support: alive and well - USENET comp.databases.ms-access


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John W. Vinson [MVP]