Access 2010 web forms and Sharepoint 2010

[IanSmithISA]

Good morning

I have recently been doing a fair amount of work with the Access 2010 betas and this version has excellent support for publishing MS Access forms and reports as web pages using a Sharepoint server.

Where it is different from previous version of Access is that with a bit of care, the same forms and reports work on the desktop and the browser and it's geared up to work this way rather then needing a techie to do odd things.

This allows the simple utilities that non programmers have been creating for internal use for a long time to be moved onto the web.

Most of the people I work with already have their hosting managed internally so wouldn't be customers but is there a plan to offer simple packages here. Obviously you could have a VPS/dedicated server, buy Sharepoint etc, but this isn't the route that I would expect many basic sites would want to go down.

It also opens a market for cheaper custom sites than can be provided using PHP or ASP, cheaper sites will want cheap hosting.

From a hosting perspective it's not a simple task, you will be supporting web sites that run lots of Access queries which will often be badly written and resource hungry. This does of course mean that you can charge more!

Bye

Ian Smith