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4 unusual facts about Microsoft Access


Digital Scriptorium

Originally using Microsoft Access to serve as a cross-institutional data collection tool, the DS database used SGML and later XML to aggregate and query the combined information.

OpenPDC

These adapters can be configured using any one of three supported database systems: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Microsoft Access.

Patent valuation

This tool is based on an installable Microsoft Access database, and applies qualitative and quantitative algorithms for patent valuation and portfolio management.

Publication of Domesday Book

It was built by Professor John Palmer and his son Matthew at the University of Hull using Microsoft Access as the platform between 1986 and 2008.


Don Cassel

He developed one of the first online interactive courses at Humber for Microsoft Access using WebCT.

Infodata

A full decade before Oracle, Access, Alpha Five, dBASE, DB2, and other DBMS programs were available, Infodata had a working database solution.

Kexi

The impetus for developing Kexi came from a noticeable lack of applications having the features of Microsoft Access, FoxPro, Oracle Forms or FileMaker while at the same time being powerful, inexpensive, open-standards-driven and sufficiently portable.


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