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Unfortunately, it's not just small business. There are some very, very large players that still use Access that I'm aware of. Every thing you said still applies
by jsmeaton 13y ago
Unfortunately, it's not just small business. There are some very, very large players that still use Access that I'm aware of. Every thing you said still applies though.
- undoware 13y agoI'm aware of this too -- there is a standing wave of businesses with technical debt from their smaller days. Much of the North American economy is underpinned by a volatile mixture of Act! ~2006, MS Access ~2003, and QuickBooks. None of these products like each other, and they are all obsolete. This is at least a big a deal as, e.g, South Korea's eternal love affair with Windows XP. It shapes the whole technoeconomic apparatus.
- was_hellbanned 13y agoI have a relative who is still making very good money writing one-off custom applications for all sorts of local businesses. He works entirely in Visual Basic with an Access back-end. He doesn't even use .Net, it's all old-school VB. With social tech sites like HN and /r/programming, we tend to forget that the business needs that drove the RAD CRUD-type apps of the 1990s never went away, it's just not interesting to talk about anymore.