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Moving Away from MS Access
I really appreciate all of the responses and discussion. If I find out what technology they end up going with before I retire, I will update you all.
Thanks for a good discussion.
Cheers!
Frankly, that doesn't surprise me at all. I started with Access in the mid-90's, as what was then called an "information worker" and what is now called a "citizen developer", meaning I had no idea what I was doing, but I realized the power of Access and wanted to pursue it. Over the next couple of decades, I saw this scenario more than once. The Powers That Be want to rid themselves of Access. They spin their wheels in futile project after futile project to do so. They end up discretely looking the other way while the people getting their day-to-day work done with Access keep on doing what they've always done.
Sometimes, enough institutional muscle is thrown behind alternatives to make them succeed. When that happens, it takes years to accomplish and a lot of money. Smaller organizations with less discretionary budgets, though, don't often have that luxury.