[freetds] Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Beta 1
James K. Lowden
jklowden at schemamania.org
Thu Jul 1 18:28:31 EDT 2004
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 brian at bruns.com wrote:
> My point is, I guess, that they seem to be targeting this to the niche
> that Jet (Access) currently fulfills. Single machine or small
> workgroup database.
I see. Well, if I were Microsoft (I'm not; if you stood us side by side,
you could tell) I'd move away from Access as a database technology, too.
I mean, Access was born in, what?, 1992 or something? That was before
Microsoft heard of TCP/IP, and the standard LAN was a bunch of 80386's
running DOS hooked up to a Novell server. And, of course, Microsoft
didn't have a server OS offering, so their only viable solution was
shared-file-as-database. That was pretty inelegant then, and it's not
looking any hipper now.
> Look to see Access frontend to this instead of
> Jet with the next major rev (my supposition).
Or both. :-)
--jkl
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