I think MS Access is a great quick-and dirty development tool especially when using Oracle as a backend. As Tim specified, you can call stored procedures and packages via ADO and do all the normal Client/Server type things with it. I was with a group that developed a MS Access app (hooked to Oracle) that was used by 120 CONCURRENT users with very little problems at all. Of course, we had a pretty good idea of what we were doing with Access and Oracle, but still, it can be done.

In fact, my team of 3 developers got a pilot app up in 2 months while the 8 "Java Guys" in the same company were in their 9th month of a 2 year project!




[Edited by marist89 on 12-14-2001 at 10:34 AM]