Lots of turmoil and upheaval later, we're still hanging in there. It appears that many companies write it off as a 'toy' database which has no place in a competitive corporate environment. What I never understand is this insistence, from the public, of seeing Access as a database. Jet is a database. SQL Server is a database.
Access is a front-end tool for creating applications based on data.
Yes, people tend to see Access as a 'toy', and that really bugs me. Last year at Tech-Ed, I ran into a product manager from Microsoft who I'd met originally back in 1993, at a conference I was speaking at. It wasn't pleasant. Actually, I'm just a computer program, churning out code and words, and stuff, for the past 8 years. I once vowed that if I ever found myself having to write an accounting system, I'd find a new career.