> Access is for people who should be programmers but aren't yet. If you find yourself thinking about Access it's probably time to hire some proper programmers

I hear this all the time, I wonder if you could expand on your reasons for this belief. Is Access always the wrong tool for any job?

I know of a few smallish (5 to 25 or so employees) that have been running their companies for well over a decade on quite large and complex custom written Access applications that were developed for far, far less than it would have cost to have it done "properly".