Re: Microsoft Access?

cloudster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>
> I would really like to know why Access is not available for the Mac, I
> have yet to see a satisfactory answer. My guess is that Office Pro is a
> major income stream for MS on the PC platform and they don't want to
> dilute that stream.

I doubt that. If this were the case there would be no Office for Mac.

> They may think there are not enough potential sales to
> bother ****ting it,

This is more like it.

> or it's also possible that the code is extremely non-****table and they
> don't want to go to the bother of overhauling it for a small market.

This is a big part of it too.

By the time Access was out on Windows, FileMaker was well entrenched in
the
Mac market. Databasing is not like word processing or spreadsheets - most
people don't use Access so there's no pervasive need. It's simply not
worth
a massive engineering effort to develop a program that statistically very
few people will use.

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