Developer extensions frustration

[Guest]

I must express my total frustration with the sickening roller coaster that I
have been on since developing with Access (From 2.0).

The constant game of hunt the extensions and expense to my small business
clients is totally unnecessary. I sincerely wish that whoever is responsible
for the decision would stick to a reasonable plan in both deployment and
cost. The information as to how to obtain the runtime involves a tedious hunt
each time a new version is released. Sales really should get a grip. The
numerous posts regarding this issue are testimony to the fact.

To go from approx £170GBP upgrade to £400 is a huge hike. Access solutions
can be so elegant but the above just makes me want to chuck it all in every
time.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Why do you say there's expense to your small business clients? You need to
purchase one copy, and then there's no additional cost. Yes, it's relatively
expensive: you probably want to be saving at least 10 copies of Access
before it makes sense from a cost perspective.

And while the details of how you get the run-time do change from release to
release, it's usually not that hard to find the details at
http://office.microsoft.com/access/