Alternative for Access+SQL Server for enterprise projects

Question

We're a small software company, developing projects for manufacturing facilities about analysis, traceability, reporting etc. We're using Access for front end, SQL Server for back end. We've quite big customers too and our company is growing. So far it is working fine but I wonder should we move to more influential technologies, such as web based solutions. What do you think about the future of Access?

Answer 1

Well, keep in mind that Access now has a web option. This option works with SharePoint and the new upcoming office 365. Here is a video of an Access application and note how at the half way point I switch to running the application 100% in a web browser. No ActiveX or Silverlight is required. I even tested and run the application on my iPad.

Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4mH0jPntI

And Access 2010 also has baked in support for the Azure (cloud) edition of SQL server.

So, we have web based options, cloud based options, and there been significant investments into Access for 2010.