Access Licenses

[Guest]

We are a Firm of around 200 employees and we have 10 licenses of MS Access
2002. We only need 10 licenses for those that need it, however, there is a
form we created that we want to make accessible via the web to everyone in
the Firm. It will be a form that will notify the person who wrote the
database their supply needs. Since we only have 10 licenses, is this in
breach of contract because all 200 employees wold use the form? It obviously
hasn't been set up yet, because we want to cover all our bases first. Any
help anyone can provide would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

While I cannot say for certain, I think that as long as you were using a html
page form (and not an actual Access form which requires Access to access - er
- use), you should be perfectly within the terms of the EULA. The html page
would be using the data, not the program itself - I don't think that you need
a license for every user who comes in contact with or uses the webpage for
the data anymore than you would need an operator's license to simple ride in
a car - surely those numbers would get astronomical quickly.

FWIW, I don't think you'd be infringing upon anything, though I'm not certain.

~yb

 

['69 Camaro]

Hi, Dan.

however, there is a
form we created that we want to make accessible via the web to everyone in
the Firm.

If it's a Web application, then there's no need for an Access license for
the Web application to connect to an MDB file as a data source. If, on the
other hand, this is an Access Form object, then Access is required to open
the database file, but it won't be available over the Web, so they'll need
to have an Access license for the individual installation of Access on their
workstations and a connection to the LAN network or remote access, such as
terminal server, to where the back end Access database resides.

The Access license doesn't have to be the retail version. It can be the
Runtime version, which comes with unlimited redistribution rights when the
Access Developer Extensions are purchased for Access 2003 (or the Runtime
version comes with the Microsoft Office Developer's Edition for earlier
versions of Microsoft Office). The Access 2007 Access Developer Extensions
(with the Access 2007 Runtime license) will be distributed for free when
they're eventually released.

HTH.
Gunny

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