FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

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