> I still think there is a killing to made on a modern day Access "Done Right". DB, Gui framework and printable report generator all in one sharing the same lan

> I still think there is a killing to made on a modern day Access "Done Right". DB, Gui framework and printable report generator all in one sharing the same language front to back, top to bottom. I don't know what the actual market [that will pay money] is for it, but I can certainly say I've never seen anything quite like it. In high school, I worked as a sysadmin/misc. programmer for a company whose whole business was software built on top of Access. I was the weird Linux person who ended up having to do a lot of stuff in Access (97). It had its issues. It was not perfect. But the simplicity with which you could bind a visual tool and query designer to an ODBC/SQL backend--I think--goes unmatched 'til this day. There are many things I cram in a spreadsheet these days that would be way more flexible if they were instead built on a quick and dirty Access DB. If there are equivalent tools out there, please, let me know.