Databases? We're not going to have those on this campus

This woman's iMac died. First off, she was forced to use an iMac. The dweebs put Macs into every role in the building: web server, print server, Windows machine, you name it. Anyways, her records were in FileMaker Pro for Mac. The campus didn't own a copy of FileMaker Pro for Windows; so, she wanted to translate the file to MS Access. The tech dweebs couldn't find
her backup file on the server.

This woman tried to get a course through Computing User Services (CUS) -
Educational Services Group. You'd think that a university with a full fledged Computer Science department would be decked out. She found that CUS no longer supports MS Access. Why? Because they are currently not supporting ANY DATABASE PROGRAM. When she asked why,
she was told that "there are safer ways to store data." Safer ways than a database. Like etching on stone?

So she asked, "What do you suggest for a solution then?" and was told to buy FMPro for Windows and move the file over. CUS said they "could translate the file to MS Access" but that it would cost "about $200." (That decision took a team of Rainman techies blurting out "about a hundred dollars.")