Licensing and MDE

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I would like to provide MDE (solutions) and MDB (databases) to external
clients.

What MS Access licensing is appropriate?
If none is required, which runtime files are required to support the
solutions?
 
If they have Office Professional or a stand-alone copy of Access, there are
no outside files or licenses needed. If no, and you have purchased the
Developer's Edition, you can create all the runtime install files and confer
all the licenses.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
The client will not be running MS Office 97 or Access 97, as such, the
developer edition 97 is the only option.
 
If you don't already have it, the Access 97 Developers Edition will be hard
to find. I suggest looking on eBay or at one of the legacy software vendors.
If you are not lucky by nature, be prepared to pay a premium.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
Arvin Meyer said:
If you don't already have it, the
Access 97 Developers Edition
will be hard to find. I suggest
looking on eBay or at one of the
legacy software vendors. If you
are not lucky by nature, be pre-
pared to pay a premium.
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The original poster will be lucky, indeed, to find Office 97 Developer
Edition without paying a stiff premium. A colleague and friend, when Access
2000 was current, just kept waiting on eBay until a copy of O97 Dev finally
was listed, and stuck with the bidding until he got it. His comment, "You
don't even want to know how much I had to pay for it!"

Fortunately, if all goes well with the project for which he needed it, the
cost will only be the proverbial drop in the bucket.

It might be easier and less expensive all around to find Office XP Dev Ed on
the auction sites and convert the application to Access 2002. Most seem to
find Access 2002, updated with Service Pack(s) and hotfixes, to be stable
and solid.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
 
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