Windows Access db to Apple Access db

[Jeff]

Hi

This is totally new to me.

Can you develop an Access database in Windows, say using Access 2002 or
2003, and then execute that database in the Apple verion of Access?

Jeff

[Baz]

AFAIK there is no such thing as an Apple version of Access.

"Jeff" <je************@asken.com.auwrote in message
news:45***********************@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...

Hi

This is totally new to me.

Can you develop an Access database in Windows, say using Access 2002 or
2003, and then execute that database in the Apple verion of Access?

Jeff

[Tom van Stiphout]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:05:57 +1000, "Jeff"
<je************@asken.com.auwrote:

That product has been discontinued years ago. Don't do it.
-Tom.

>Hi

This is totally new to me.

Can you develop an Access database in Windows, say using Access 2002 or
2003, and then execute that database in the Apple verion of Access?

Jeff

[Jeff]

Looks like they will have to come down in the world and buy a new Windows
PC.

Thanks
Jeff

"Tom van Stiphout" <no*************@cox.netwrote in message
news:km********************************@4ax.com...

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:05:57 +1000, "Jeff"
<je************@asken.com.auwrote:

That product has been discontinued years ago. Don't do it.
-Tom.

>>Hi

This is totally new to me.

Can you develop an Access database in Windows, say using Access 2002 or
2003, and then execute that database in the Apple verion of Access?

Jeff

[Gord]

On Jan 25, 5:26 pm, "Jeff" <[e-mail]:

Looks like they will have to come down in the world and buy a new Windows
PC.

Not necessarily:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

[David W. Fenton]

Tom van Stiphout <no*************@cox.netwrote in
news:km********************************@4ax.com:

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:05:57 +1000, "Jeff"
<je************@asken.com.auwrote:

>>This is totally new to me.

Can you develop an Access database in Windows, say using Access
2002 or 2003, and then execute that database in the Apple verion
of Access?

That product has been discontinued years ago. Don't do it.

Eh? No such product ever existed. The only reason there were ever
any references in the Access help files to Macs was because you
might have been storing your MDB on a Mac file system.

In addition to boot camp on IntelMacs, there's also other Windows
emulators, as well as the option of letting Mac users run an Access
application on a Windows Terminal Server (there are Remote Desktop
clients for nearly every non-Windows OS, including Apple and Linux).

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usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

[Tom van Stiphout]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:47:58 -0600, "David W. Fenton"
<XX*******@dfenton.com.invalidwrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office
-Tom.

>Tom van Stiphout <no*************@cox.netwrote in
news:km********************************@4ax.com :

>On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:05:57 +1000, "Jeff"
<je************@asken.com.auwrote:

>>>This is totally new to me.

Can you develop an Access database in Windows, say using Access
2002 or 2003, and then execute that database in the Apple verion
of Access?

That product has been discontinued years ago. Don't do it.

Eh? No such product ever existed. The only reason there were ever
any references in the Access help files to Macs was because you
might have been storing your MDB on a Mac file system.

In addition to boot camp on IntelMacs, there's also other Windows
emulators, as well as the option of letting Mac users run an Access
application on a Windows Terminal Server (there are Remote Desktop
clients for nearly every non-Windows OS, including Apple and Linux).

[Gord]

On Jan 26, 8:47 am, "David W. Fenton" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Tom van Stiphout <[e-mail] innews:km********************************@4ax.com:

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:05:57 +1000, "Jeff"
<[e-mail]:

>This is totally new to me.

>Can you develop an Access database in Windows, say using Access
2002 or 2003, and then execute that database in the Apple verion
of Access?

That product has been discontinued years ago. Don't do it.

Eh? No such product ever existed.

Tom must have been thinking of Visual FoxPro for Macintosh (VFP/Mac).
Microsoft officially ended support for VFP/Mac in 2003, but it hadn't
been updated for several years before that.

[David W. Fenton]

Tom van Stiphout <no*************@cox.netwrote in
news:jv********************************@4ax.com:

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:47:58 -0600, "David W. Fenton"
<XX*******@dfenton.com.invalidwrote:

>>Tom van Stiphout <no*************@cox.netwrote in
news:km********************************@4ax.co m:

>>On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:05:57 +1000, "Jeff"
<je************@asken.com.auwrote:
This is totally new to me.

Can you develop an Access database in Windows, say using Access
2002 or 2003, and then execute that database in the Apple verion
of Access?

That product has been discontinued years ago. Don't do it.

Eh? No such product ever existed. The only reason there were ever
any references in the Access help files to Macs was because you
might have been storing your MDB on a Mac file system.

In addition to boot camp on IntelMacs, there's also other Windows
emulators, as well as the option of letting Mac users run an
Access application on a Windows Terminal Server (there are Remote
Desktop clients for nearly every non-Windows OS, including Apple
and Linux).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office

Nowhere does that article state that there was ever a Mac version of
Access. For instance, the Mac versions table from the article:

Versions for Apple Macintosh OS
* Office 1 (Word 3, etc.): Released 1990.
* Office 2 (Word 4, etc.): Released 1992.
* Office 3 (Word 5, Excel 4, PowerPoint 3, etc.): Released 1993.
* Office 4.2 (The last 68K version; Word 6.0, Excel 5, PowerPoint
4, etc.): Released 1994.
* Office 4.2.1 (The first Power Mac-aware version; Word 6.0.1,
Excel 5, etc.): Released June 2, 1994.
* Office 98 (Word/Excel/PowerPoint 98 (v8.0), etc.): Released
March 15, 1998.
* Office 2001 (Word 2001, etc.): Released October 11, 2000.
* Office v. X (The first Mac OS X/Aqua edition; Word X, etc.):
Current version 10.1.9, Released November 19, 2001.
* Office 2004 (Word 2004, etc.): Current version 11.3.3, Released
May 11, 2004.
* Office 2008 (Word 2008, etc.): Current version N/A, Due to be
Released 2nd Half 2007.

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