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Depending on the size of the Corp and the utility of the Acess DB, that
company has tied themselves to MS. Typically, Access isn't just used as a
fancy spreadsheet. It has forms and queries and reports. I would recommend
to the client that they migrate this app off Access, maybe as part of
their linux migration. Now, if a company was committed to getting off MS,
they may seriously consider this. Or if the Access DB was used at a
departmental level and there was a corporate decree to go to linux (yeah
right) then maybe win4Lin would be plausible. But I would see that as a
temporary solution. If there was such a decree and I was a manager - I
would request a budget to migrate the Access app.
One thing about Access, older versions don't play that nicely with newer
versions - so even if a corp was migrating to Access2000/2002, there may
still be some migration work necessary for the app to run on Win2K. It's a
numbers game between this work vs. rewriting + Linux license savings.
Every corp will have different numbers.
When you dig your own grave, you may just have to lye in it.
> Kevin Brosius said:
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>> How about spreadsheets? What do you consider comparable to Excel?
>
> Or if you need to access an Access database, which is your company
> standard?
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> (and don't tell me how Access sucks, and (m|my)SQL could do it better;
> that's almost never an option, not for your average user)
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