absolutely, I'm a die hard Linux/Unix fan, but the one tool I miss from Microsoft land is Access. The code is horrible, scale is a dead end, its expensive, clun

absolutely, I'm a die hard Linux/Unix fan, but the one tool I miss from Microsoft land is Access. The code is horrible, scale is a dead end, its expensive, clunky ugly and inflexible. But you can go from db schema and data, to forms and reports with unparalleled speed. That use case is so common. I haven't built an app on Access for years soley because M$ decided it should not be a part of the office bundle. But I have never found a replacement. For my own data I use flat files and better bash. but I can't hand that over to Mum and Pop as a solution.