Originally Posted by
lykwydchykyn
I don't think anyone *did it*, per se; it's more something that just happened. Someone had an access database, they shared it with someone else, a third person wanted this feature, etc, etc. 15 years of that and it's out of hand and out of support.
Maybe there was some point at which someone should have said, "hey, this is too big for the platform, we should get someone to build a real application"; but there probably wasn't time, budget, or expertise to ever do so.
I suspect these sorts of "organic" applications are rampant in businesses, which is why moving from older platforms becomes so difficult.