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From: roccogrand on 14 May 2010 00:24 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....
From: Banana on 14 May 2010 09:46 On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > Banana<Banana(a)Republic> wrote in news:4BEBE617.3080704(a)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.
From: GP George on 14 May 2010 10:51 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....
From: Larry Linson on 14 May 2010 23:16 "a a r o n . k e m p f @ g m a i l . c o m" <aaron.kempf(a)gmail.com> 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
From: John W. Vinson on 15 May 2010 02:26
On Fri, 14 May 2010 22:16:23 -0500, "Larry Linson" <bouncer(a)localhost.not> wrote: >"a a r o n . k e m p f @ g m a i l . c o m" <aaron.kempf(a)gmail.com> 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 > > -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |