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Glenn
Does anyone think microsoft will put a database application like Access in
office mac?
office mac?
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Mr. Strat
Glenn said:
It's a shame when cousins marry.
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John McGhie
Hi Glen:
No.
Where is the business case for it?
1) There are any number of perfectly good "database" applications for the
Mac. We don't need another.
Excel is available, and makes a very good flat-file database. MySQL works
really well if you need SQL.
2) Access is not *really* a "database". Even though it is used for
quick-and-cheap databases (most corporations would be horrified to discover
just how many Access databases they have!) that's not its main purpose.
Its main purpose is to create really nice form-based applications in a
Windows/.NET world. Often, those applications are then migrated to SQL
Server for production use. SQL Server is a production-ready,
high-performance relational database.
The code built in Access forms the User Interface for the application.
Access doesn't build code that can be used on a Mac. There are applications
that do: such as Filemaker Pro.
So: No, I can't see a way for Microsoft to make money out of it, so I can't
see anyone in Microsoft going to the Board of Directors with a request for
the money to build it
Cheers
On 7/11/07 9:43 AM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Glenn"
Does anyone think microsoft will put a database application like Access in
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No.
Where is the business case for it?
1) There are any number of perfectly good "database" applications for the
Mac. We don't need another.
Excel is available, and makes a very good flat-file database. MySQL works
really well if you need SQL.
2) Access is not *really* a "database". Even though it is used for
quick-and-cheap databases (most corporations would be horrified to discover
just how many Access databases they have!) that's not its main purpose.
Its main purpose is to create really nice form-based applications in a
Windows/.NET world. Often, those applications are then migrated to SQL
Server for production use. SQL Server is a production-ready,
high-performance relational database.
The code built in Access forms the User Interface for the application.
Access doesn't build code that can be used on a Mac. There are applications
that do: such as Filemaker Pro.
So: No, I can't see a way for Microsoft to make money out of it, so I can't
see anyone in Microsoft going to the Board of Directors with a request for
the money to build it
Cheers
On 7/11/07 9:43 AM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Glenn"
Does anyone think microsoft will put a database application like Access in
office mac?
--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/
Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.
John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
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Jim Gordon MVP
Hi Glenn,
Office 2004 already is a relational database. Read this:
http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/Excel/RelationalOffice.htm
It's like Access in that it supports SQL and is a fully relational databse.
It is not Access, however.
-Jim
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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
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Office 2004 already is a relational database. Read this:
http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/Excel/RelationalOffice.htm
It's like Access in that it supports SQL and is a fully relational databse.
It is not Access, however.
-Jim
--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info