Microsoft access on an Apple computer?

[Ian Burton]

I have a client who have a user who refuses to use PC's (some people!!) My
question is this. Is it possible to run a microsoft access database in some
way on a new Apple? Has anyone done this before. Excuse my ignorance with
Apples.
Thanks for any assistance.
Ian Burton

 

[Ian Burton]

Hi.
I found a response earlier in this newsgroup, which says that to run access,
the user needs to purchase a windows emulator, assumming it is a fairly
standard bit of software, and then I guess we purchase Microsoft access 2003
for windows.
Will it run all the vba code etc does anyone know?
Thanks.
Ian

 

[SusanV]

There's a version of Office for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004

 

[Ian Burton]

Susan,
The professional version has Virtual PC for MAC on it, and then they would
presumably need to purchase a Microsoft Access 2003 for windows license on
top of that?
Thanks for your help,
Ian

 

[SusanV]

To be honest Ian I really don't have any idea - I've never had the pleasure
of having a Mac user need to use an Access db...

 

[John Vinson]

There's a version of Office for Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004
--

Yes... but this does NOT include Access. There *is* no version of
Access released which runs on the native Mac operating system, and not
much prospect that such a version will ever be released.

As noted elsethread, you need a Windows emulator, or to run Windows on
the Mac hardware in a dual-boot system (booting up in WindowsXP to run
Access, or in Mac OS-X for Macintosh programs). The emulators run
everything that Windows on an Intel system can run; there's some
performance loss but my colleagues say they're pretty good
nonetheless.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per John Vinson:

Yes... but this does NOT include Access. There *is* no version of
Access released which runs on the native Mac operating system, and not
much prospect that such a version will ever be released.

How about some Mac front end development tool that can ODBC across a LAN to a
..MDB?

 

[John Vinson]

How about some Mac front end development tool that can ODBC across a LAN to a
.MDB?

I haven't investigated this possibility; but I would imagine that you
could do something of this sort in some suitable Mac programming
environment. I do know that it could be done in Visual FoxPro, which
is available on both platforms and can read Access databases natively.

Of course, using a Web interface to a database (stored in Access on a
Windows machine) would be platform-independent.

However, any effort put into developing Access Forms or Reports would
be a dead loss.

John W. Vinson[MVP]