1) I'm not arguing that point. I've looked at some. The benefit of browser based solutions is their ease of distribution. If you can overcome the distribution issue (and it's not easy), client/server still provides a better user interface. If you have to interface with the public, you need a browser based solution. If your app is inward facing, you have options which no one seems to realize.

2) Are we all suffering from some mass delusion?

Yes. Every one likes the shiny new toy. I have never known a programmer to say - let me implement with tried and true methods that do the job at hand. They really don't care. All they want is to play with the new toys (I am just as guilty as the rest in this regard). It is the managers who need to get control of the children and guide them. They do after all work for the company and the company is in business to make a profit not to provide toys for the children. When a need arises for a new toy, then by all means, use it. But the inmates have confused a real need for the toy with the desire to pay with it and so attempt to use it for everything regardless of whether or not it makes sense.

5) My arms are not too short to use my phone, although my fingers seem to be too fat; it's my eyes that are the problem there. That point was a jab at MS for assuming that everyone who installed Win 8 would be using a touch screen and making it impossible to continue to do business the way desktop users have always done business. There is change that is productive and necessary and there is change for the sake of change and I wish they could sort out the difference. I have a hundred people complaining to me that they can't see the forms/reports anymore since we "upgraded" to O365. The metro look just doesn't cut it. I'm spending a huge amount of time changing all my standard themes to be non standard just so people can see things they had no trouble seeing when they were using A2010. And, I'm almost certainly going to have to change them again with the next release of Office. Or perhaps, I'll come in some Wednesday and find that patch Tuesday had made all my theme adjustments glow. That's the kind of change we can live without.

Thanks for participating. It was great to chat with you folks. I hope you've all learned a little about Access and its sidekicks Jet and ACE. I'll probably drop in with my SQL Server questions as they arise.