Is Access going away??

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Stan

I have heard repeated rumors from the applications teams
that Access is no longer going to be developed or
included in Office. Does anyone have any confirmation
one way or another on this?

Thanks,

Stan
 
AFAIK, Access is definitely going to be in the next version of Office, which
I would assume would be out in 2005. (I believe Microsoft is on an 18 month
cycle these days, and Office 2003 came out in November of 2003)
 
I have heard repeated rumors from the applications teams
that Access is no longer going to be developed or
included in Office.
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Whose application teams?

As far as I know, Access is included in the next release of Office after
Office 2003. Just thinking logically, I believe it's highly unlikely that
Microsoft would jettison one of its more profitable products.
 
I have read that Microsoft is developing another version
of Access to run on larger servers, perhaps this is what
your applications team is referring to.

Charlie O'Neill
 
Charlie said:
I have read that Microsoft is developing another version
of Access to run on larger servers, perhaps this is what
your applications team is referring to.
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The last 3 versions of ms-access has included what is called ADP projects.
This allows you to use ms-access with sql server. When you create a table,
that table is actually created on the sql-server. When you use the
relationships window, you are actually sending commands to sql server!

ADP projects are 100% native OLEdb sql server applications. All quires get
executed on the sql server, and in fact NO LOCAL tables can even exist!

So, if you are talking abut a version of ms-access that can scale to 1000+
users at the same time, that has existed for the last 3 versions.

So, that "other" version especially for sql server has existed for a long
time now!
 
In general terms, you can predict that MsAccess will be
completely rebuilt AFTER Windows Longhorn's WinFS is released.
Windows Longhorn is 2005 at BEST, so the release for a rebuilt
Access probably can't be until 2007 minimum.

MS can't leave a gap open that long: they would loose the
market. This means that there must be a continuing compatible
version of Access in the 2005 Office release.

(david)
 
Considering that there are at least 250 million users of Access (more than
all other DBMS combined) I'd say that Microsft would be stupid to kill it.
Have you ever known Microsoft to make a stupid business decision? Does that
answer your question?
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Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
Um... how 'bout "Bob"? <g>

Fred


Arvin Meyer said:
Considering that there are at least 250 million users of Access (more than
all other DBMS combined) I'd say that Microsft would be stupid to kill it.
Have you ever known Microsoft to make a stupid business decision? Does that
answer your question?
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
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david epsom dot com dot au said:
or the morphing of it into the windows help system...
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Ouch. Good shot. 14 points for David. <chuckle>

Tony
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