>I never heard MS say "it's impossible to make local engine with with 64-bit OS". What I *did* hear them say was that 32 and 64 bit apps would not be able to access the same tables because the indexes would need to be different.
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What I heard them say over and over was that there would be no local engine. Period.

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>>And the drive by the community was based on outright lies told by the M$ people here. When eTechnologia made initial versions of its compiler, all of a sudden all the bogey arguments spewed by M$ at the time were shown to be bogus. The "you will lose local database engine", "it's impossible to make local engine work with 64-bit OS", "the GUI would have to be merged with that of VS" etc etc...
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>>Programmers know how to follow the logic of any given situation, that's their job. It was only a matter of properly setting the situation and the result could have been predicted. That so-called vote was just going through the motions, points in the prepared checklist.
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>>Or the list of arguments didn't contain arguments - it contained threats. Whatever, that's last year's snow. Mentioning it just because you did.