The problem is that management has still not accepted the idea that I.T. people are professionals and they hate having to show them any sort of respect. Not to mention PCs are cheap and they don't understand why they should pay someone so much to work on something so cheap. Used to be better back in the days of big-iron mainframes that cost oodles of money and the execs didn't mind paying for the expertise to run it. So they like Access because it is easy for some less-than-a-programmer office-worker type to use, which convinces them that Access is somehow powerful. Power=somebody can get something out of it kinda thing. They don't see things like bloat and impossible-to-report-on un-normalized data ...