Re: MS Access (was: Re: Linux at scale)

In article <lhas1sFire7U2@mid.individual.net>, vallor wrote...

 
On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 22:30:47 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v8ovem$8t63$7@dont-email.me>:
 

On 4 Aug 2024 17:54:40 GMT, vallor wrote:
 

When I think of the average computer user, I think of my folks. (Dad
just turned 84.)  I'd love to get them on Linux, but they have a good
chunk of their personal organizing locked up in MS Access databases.

 
How about converting to SQLite and using LibreOffice Base as a frontend?
That gets you away from the limitations of Microsoft Access.

 
That would mean throwing away umpteen databases and reports, developed
over the span of decades.  I don't think that's practicable.
 
As I said, I'd like to try Access on Linux using WINE or proton.
 
Went to buy a copy at Amazon, and MS Access 2010 seems to be
the latest version.  That can't be the latest version,
can it?  Is Microsoft abandoning Access?

It seems very unlikely that MS would abandon Access - there are just too many
databases out there.  I use Access as part of Microsoft 365.
Version: Microsoft® Access® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2406 Build
16.0.17726.20078) 32-bit

There may be a perpetual license version available directly from Microsoft.

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Phil, London