Creating Scalable Access Applications
Regardless of the linguistic legitimacy of terms such as rightsizing, these words have become ingrained in today's computerese. Each of these expressions relates to the scalability of applications. Scalable applications can run on a variety of platforms, communicate by industry-standard LAN and wide area networking (WAN) protocols, and access data stored in a variety of different types of databases. 32-bit Access 97 runs under Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51+, so Access itself is moderately scalable. Access 97 is a threaded application and Jet 3.5 is multithreaded; thus, Access can take advantage of the symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities of Windows NT running on workstations with multiple processors. ...
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