Re: Access 97 vs. newer versions

Tim Marshall <TIMMY!@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:e2dqa0$a02$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

James Stewart wrote:
the database, would there be any great advantage to upgrading
from Access97 to a later version?

In my opinion, yes.

What Lyle says makes perfect sense. His analogy is the Model A
and a modern vehicle compared to A97 and later versions of
Acccess.

That's the biggest pile of BS I've ever seen. It's more like the
comparison between a 2003 model car and the corresponding 1997
model. There's hardly any difference in how both will work for
transportation, though there may be nice little useful features
offered by the later model (the latest in airbag technology, or GPS,
etc.).

In my own experience, I've found that while A97 is pretty solid,
I've had difficulty deploying my apps on WinXp machines.
Frequently, these machines have had A97 installed along with later
versions of Office. I have no control over these machines, but it
seems that frequently, software support people don't do such
installs correctly. In such situations and sometimes even in
cases where only Office 97 is installed on the WinXp OS, I
encounter cripppling problems that usually manifest themselves
when library references are screwed up.

I've never seen a single problem on a WinXP machine, and several of
my clients' A97 apps are running on them.

I prefer to deploy mde's and it's really not worth the headache to
go out and try and compile these on the many problem machines
there are. This was one of a couple of major reasons for my
decision to switch to A2003.

If it's reference paths, then the problem would wouldn't change with
a later version of Access, no?

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