I have clients who use all sorts of DB technologies. I actually have respect for the fluid nature of FileMaker Pro, I always loved DBIV, I -love- Alpha Five v. 7, and really.. Microsoft has one of the best DB tools out there in Visual FoxPro, a product they have let languish despite it's incredible speed, versatility and ease to program. You can make Foxpro do things that Access only dreams about.
I can' think of many other MS products that have gotten the absolute shaft like Foxpro. Kind of sad, actually. CW > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson > Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 8:04 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: RE: [H] machine update plans > > At 03:15 PM 8/25/2006, Christopher Klein typed: > >However, learning Access in an MIS/CIS program is quite important. Not > all > >corporations run SQL. The company I'm at with now has approximately 1500 > >employees at our site, and around 6k worldwide. Decent sized company but > >every department within the organization has these access > databases...it's a > >nightmare. > > If you ask me everyone should use IBM/Lotus Approach as it does not > require a proprietary database format like [NO] Access does. Give me > a dBase III+/IV app any day. At least one could share their results > much more easily. I know that Excel does dBase III+/V but it's not a > database mgr. IMHO the results I get in Approach are every bit as > good as Access but like the VHS/Beta format deal the best format does > NOT always win. > > > ----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson > Ashland, OH, USA 44805 > <http://www.wavijo.com>
