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One of your apps is to view Access DB on Macs. I'd have never guessed in a million years that people are still using Access, and that it is possible to build a
by vijayr 11y ago
One of your apps is to view Access DB on Macs. I'd have never guessed in a million years that people are still using Access, and that it is possible to build a business on top of it. Goes to show that all these rankings etc don't matter as much as we are led to believe.
- slantyyz 11y agoAccess is a pretty handy desktop analysis tool for running ad-hoc queries against linked tables, etc. You do see it used quite frequently in enterprise situations where desktop users have outgrown Excel but aren't quite ready to deal with a server-based database. Filemaker Pro is still hanging around too, for what it's worth.
- leesalminen 11y agoWe do data migrations for our SaaS offering. Most of our competitors use Access as the database. When I go to migrate data it's very convenient to pull up an Access viewer on OSX to get a feel for the data structure so I can inform the customer on what will be migrated. Saves the minute it takes to boot up a Windows VM (and pay monthly for Access 365).