MS Access for Mac?

[Phil Sharpe]

Bought my 1st Mac this week & purchased Office 2004 Pro for it.

I was surprised to find that it doesn't include Access.

When I asked the vendor to check, he told me that he doesn't think Access is
available for Macs.

Can this be true?

Is there any viable alternative?



TIA,

Phil Sharpe

 

[kurtz_le_pirate]

Bought my 1st Mac this week & purchased Office 2004 Pro for it.

I was surprised to find that it doesn't include Access.

When I asked the vendor to check, he told me that he doesn't think Access is
available for Macs.

Can this be true?

Is there any viable alternative?

yes, it's true. for long time, one of the best data base on mac is
filemaker.
and acces is not a realy good program.

welcome to switch !

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Bought my 1st Mac this week & purchased Office 2004 Pro for it.

I was surprised to find that it doesn't include Access.

Microsoft has determined that porting Access would be uneconomical.

When I asked the vendor to check, he told me that he doesn't think Access is
available for Macs.

Can this be true?

It's true. You can run Access in VPC, but it will never be native Mac.

Is there any viable alternative?

Filemaker Pro and 4D are both outstanding cross-platform database apps.
You can also use MySQL or another SQL flavor.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Phil,

Although MS Access does not come with Office Pro for the Mac, you do
have the ability to run Windows operating system on your Mac. So if you
already have a copy of MS Access it will work just fine in the virtual PC.

If you don't already own MS Access you will need to purchase a copy.

-Jim

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Filemaker Pro and 4D are both outstanding cross-platform database apps.
You can also use MySQL or another SQL flavor.

There is another often overlooked database for the Mac, Panorama. I've been
using it for years. It's lightning fast, fully programmable, and later this
year will be cross platform. Check it out at:
http://www.provue.com/home.html

 

[JE McGimpsey]

There is another often overlooked database for the Mac, Panorama. I've been
using it for years. It's lightning fast, fully programmable, and later this
year will be cross platform. Check it out at:
http://www.provue.com/home.html

The web site says

Seamless cross platform operation lets you develop and deploy on
both PC and Mac systems.

The primary hesitation I would have with it is that it's RAM based -
while that makes it lightning fast, it also makes it somewhat more
vulnerable, and more limited for large databases (I typically run with
less than 300MB or so of free RAM on my 1GB PB). For smaller DBs it
sounds great.

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

The web site says


The primary hesitation I would have with it is that it's RAM based -
while that makes it lightning fast, it also makes it somewhat more
vulnerable, and more limited for large databases (I typically run with
less than 300MB or so of free RAM on my 1GB PB). For smaller DBs it
sounds great.

Indeed, I have not been implementing corporate solutions with it. But it's
great for small business applications like Access's Northwinds, and mailing
lists, etc.