"Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote in
:

My clients which include Fortune 500 companies, Federal and local
government, and numerous others will be quite surprised. Departmental
and low user count applications are Access's forte. I do suspect that
there are far more single user Access applications, but the number
multi-user apps runs in the millions.

Yes, it "works", butmost developers are only using it because it is what
they're comfortable with. But with all the limitations with Access such as
the threat of DB corruption in a multi-user environment, why not use a real
embedded DB like SQL Compact Edition?

Even Microsoft acknowledges that Access isn't intended to be a general
purposes database engine - rather a personal DB:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/edition...omparison.mspx

I just don't see the point of using Access anymore when there are better
alternatives out there.


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