Converting from Access?

[Arnold Shore]

Apologies if this isn't the right newsgroup, but a friend/client has a
conventional ACCESS application that he wants to convert to
online/internet/ASP.

While I've used Access's export function in the past to generate ASP from
the tables, I wonder whether there's anything around to do a more
comprehensive automatic conversion. I've noted a few ads for such products,
and I wonder/hope there's some experience around here that might be shared -
with recommendations .

We'll certainly consider a commercial conversion project. (I'm just out of
time and interest, frankly.) If so, pls come back with some info on how you
price the effort, etc.

Thanks, all.

AS

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Re: Converting from Access?

Arnold Shore wrote:[color=blue]
> Apologies if this isn't the right newsgroup, but a friend/client has
> a conventional ACCESS application that he wants to convert to
> online/internet/ASP.
>
> While I've used Access's export function in the past to generate ASP
> from the tables, I wonder whether there's anything around to do a more
> comprehensive automatic conversion. I've noted a few ads for such
> products, and I wonder/hope there's some experience around here that
> might be shared - with recommendations .
>
> We'll certainly consider a commercial conversion project. (I'm just
> out of time and interest, frankly.) If so, pls come back with some
> info on how you price the effort, etc.
>[/color]
I've never used any of them, but Google provides plenty of hits.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=gd&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-37,GGLD:en&hl=en&oe=UTF-8&q=convert%20Access%20frontend%20to%20ASP&sa=N&tab=xw

Personally, I would be suspicious of anything that claims to do "too
good" of a job at this. There is too much tweaking that needs to be done
to make using Jet as backend to a an ASP application scalable. You may
get an ASP application that works well with a few users in the testing
stage, but bombs when exposed to the world on the internet. YMMV.

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