Originally Posted by
sbm12
Originally Posted by
jg70124
...My work is:
- 50%, working with client data sets of up to 1 million records, and creating 100's of histograms, scatters, and other charts for every project. Currently using Excel and Access for this task...
...You will not have Access on the Mac. That sounds like enough to veto the move right from the get-go, particularly if you have to share those DBs with your coworkers...
I'm not so sure. Unless you're doing hairy stuff, which doesn't sound likely, you can almost certainly replicate the Access part in FileMaker Pro. It's multi-platform and interfaces quite well with Excel, oddly enough in some ways better than Access does. There may be some one-time development work (depends on how deep into Access your work goes) but FM is, all else being equal, easier to use than Access. (This is according to every review I've read and is borne out by my own experience with both.) IMHO, if Access wasn't bundled into most versions of Office for Windows, its market share would be negligible. (Access has some plusses for professional developers, but that doesn't sound like the situation here.)