MS Access (was: Re: Linux at scale)

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?

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