Access is a true RAD tool. If you can model data and build SQL Express databases it is perfect. The query builder and reporting is the best in the business. One day, building web databases will use the same techniques to build views as access uses to build forms. (instead of typing in a morass of HTML). Most of the comments here are simply wrong - its a great tool and Microsoft has made (yet another) mistake in not developing it further.

Ray Starkey ACCESSible IT Limited Coventry, UK