As I was reading your post I was in complete agreement until your penultimate sentence: One warning: Microsoft Access is not a multi-user database . . ."? Don't get me wrong, I'm not a disciple of Bill or anything but did you forget to qualify that in some way? Our Academic Computing Offices use it for our custom written HelpDesk and Campus IP Address database applications and they are quite stable and are used by as many as 15 people.

True, It doesn't scale too well, but if we get to the point where scalability is an issue, we'll migrate to MS SQL Server. Granted I'd love to have written them in a Perl/Web Server/RDBMS environment, but that decision wasn't mine to make.

Were you talking in terms of a Perl/MS Access/ODBC DBI environment? I'm not very knowledgeable in that area, so it would be handy to know.

--Jim

In reply to Re: Re: Is Perl the right solution... by jlongino
in thread Is Perl the right solution... by Lord Wrath

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