[KLUG Advocacy] Re: Desktop Penguins -- "Ability Office" read Access MDB and has ADO support

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 08:59, Adam Williams wrote:
> Economic stimulus.

Er, not exactly.  The US is spiraling down a service industry toilet,
where its production industry is dying.  Don't confuse jobs with
economic benefit.

> True, and ODBC works great.  But it doesn't have the form,
> report, and quasi-app-developement logic that Access provides.
> Not even close.

Agreed.  But software like TheKompany's Rekall does.  And if you want a
code builder, Borland's Kylix (and the associated Delphi on Windows) is
_far_better_ than Visual Basic.

> I'll take a look at these and see if they merit including in
> my data access presentation.

You should at least mention it.  At $29, Windows users might be
interested too.  Several independent Windows magazines have given it
preferential treatment over MS Access.

Of course, they do that all the time with various 3rd party
applications.  But people often just by Microsoft by default.

-- Bryan

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