Access For Macintosh?

[Joe Delphi]

Hi,

I have a customer who wants me to develop a MS Access program for him,
but he threw me a curveball. He said that he wants it to run on his
Macintosh computer. I checked the Microsoft website and see that they have
Microsoft Office 2004 for Macintosh which contains Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint, but it does not make any mention of Access.

Does Microsoft make a version of Access for the Macintosh? If not,
does anyone have any suggestions on how I could meet his requirements?


JD

 

[John Vinson]

Does Microsoft make a version of Access for the Macintosh?

No. Never have; probably won't in the future (certainly not in 2007).

If not, does anyone have any suggestions on how I could meet his requirements?

Macs can now run Windows software - either by installing Windows
itself (for a cost, of course) on the newer Mac boxes, or using
Windows emulation. But that's your only Access option - it runs under
a Windows environment, only.

There are relational databases in the Mac world - 4th Dimension and
<wincing from some bad experiences> Filemaker Pro. They're very
different from Access though.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[Guest]

There's no version of Access for Macintosh.