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US DOJ doesn't indict people unless they have compelling evidence to win convictions.

In Jack's case he's looking at a minimum of 15 to 30 years in prison. The FBI said they have solid evidence of him purchasing child porno material and several devices they confiscated had child porno content on it.

You must be referring to SQL Server Compact 4.0. That's when we were able to create OLEDB ADP's (Access Data Projects). I think it was around until A2013, when MS decided to deprecate it because very few developers were using it. MS deprecates anything that has low usage. They don't want to...

Don't hold your breath, you'll suffocate 😵‍💫

And then there's this:

IIRC, not long after Jack upgraded UA to version 4, he moved from NY to FL, halted his Access MVP contributions, totally disconnected from posting anything on UA, and did not fix several things on the UA site that weren't working right. It looks like somewhere along that timeframe he snapped. I...

Agreed, forget about running Access in a browser. We can do that right now with RD. Does anyone remember the Access User Voice request about making Access a better ODBC client?

That would take forever, UA had over 4.5M posts! I'm sure the Feds looked at what Jack did from the time he took over UA ownership from George Hubbell.

I still can't believe Jack did what the Feds allege because he's intellectually gifted and never gave any indications he was into anything inmoral. His wife, if he's still married to her, is a prominent Physician. I am truly saddened by this news 😢 Jack wrote the Bible on optimizing Access...

I'm shocked! Ten years ago, I worked with Jack to market a Machine Shop app he developed with Access and I didn't get any bad vibes about his character. He is innocent until proven guilty, but it seems the Feds have overwhelming evidence against him. Could that be reason why the UA site didn't...

Jack Leach was an Access MVP who some years ago had taken ownership of the Utter Access site until its recent demise. This news might be the reason why UA abruptly went belly up without any advance warning...

Webforms operate via stateless unbound http requests. I know some Access developers, like Albert Kallal and Jack Leach, who transitioned from Access to DotNet, but as you said, the learning curve is steep. I participated in a DotNet interop project where an Access FE was interfaced with...

Microsoft's answer to that is DotNet, and IT's embraced it. For years, MS has been preaching migration from Access to DotNet with SQL Server. They even created a DotNet vba_like language called vb.net, but not many developers use it anymore and MS seems like they want to deprecate it.

Is it because Excel is so overwhelmingly popular, and data stored in corporate db's cannot be updated with Excel? I have seen many businesses and corporate departments running their operations with Excel, but God forbid they create siloed db's with Access!

So why did IT's ignore those Access apps when they could've managed them from the beginning, or at least enforced a policy? But wait a minute, all enterprise editions of Office included Access. So why single out Access when Excel also has hooks into corporate data sources, and is actually less...

I think the issue lies with how well odbc can translate queries before they're executed on the db server. One would think a PT query runs on the server exactly as it was written and stored in the Access FE, but odbc has mysterious ways of changing it, especially if it's a complex query with...

I think the problem of Access FE's working seamlessly with remote db's is that Access is file server based and uses the SMB communications protocol, which doesn't handle delays and interference well. Access architecture also involves a lot of network traffic often having to load entire tables...

Who started that mentality, Corporate IT's, MS SQL Server marketing, or their DotNet folks?

Perhaps we could submit a white paper to MS that provides a market analysis of current Access applications, a product plan, positioning, pricing, and sales projections? I bet if MS would've charged a minimal amount for desktop Access runtimes, users would've still paid for them. You can't...

Are you thinking of a utility that converts vba code to a web development language? A desktop Access app cannot be entirely converted to a web app. I think a web app can reproduce to a certain extent Access vba functionality, such as executing event driven code and support vba_like built in...