>>>I'll have to download the beta SQL Desktop and see what it can do...I'm still not understanding what the target market is, though...
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>>I think the target market is desktop applications where there is no advantage to having a monolithic server database.
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>"But that sounds like Access..."
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>Maybe it'll interface with Word/Excel nicely, better than Access...

It's like Access on steriods. You'll get a much better database than Jet. And you can write one application that will run exactly the same way whether it sits on someone's laptop or is on a server shared by hundreds of users. It will also make replication a lot easier. You can let a user take some or all of an application's data off-line and replicate with the main database. Kind of like VFP's off-line views but much better.