Zoho now provides a simple mechanism to convert a Microsoft Access prototype into a web application. In other words, Zoho has now provided what Microsoft never did.
I'm still baffled by Microsoft's unwillingness to take this step. Sure, Microsoft wants to keep you in their technology stack, but the path from Access to any web-based application platform, including Microsoft's technologies, hasn't been clear, or easy. Instead, a bunch of little vendors built their own Access-to-web-app converters.
You'd think that Access would have an interest in promoting this migration path, if that's what keeps people using Access as a prototyping tool. For example, a few years ago, I started building a prototype in Access for what would eventually be a MySQL/PHP-based departmental application. Soon into the project, I realized that the work put into the Access database structure was largely wasted. Oh well.
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