>Hi Carl,
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>I think that the primary issue of concern here is MS's vision and interpretation of "Enterprise Development". What probably started out as an assault strategy on the domain of IBM, Oracle, etc. has expanded to include small and medium sized businesses. They are actually trying to sell 3-tiered solutions to ALL enterprises no matter the size or situation. I'm not making this up - there is currently an article on the MSDN site (the NT 5.0 article) which says it clear.

Gee, then explain Access to me. That certainly isn't an n-tier solution. Don't tell me about Jet going away and SQL Server replacing it. This is a scaled-down, desktop version of SQL Server...a single tier solution.