>Jane,
>
>To add to Ed's reply...
>
>I'm going to guess that Microsoft wrote SQL Server to run on NT because, at the time, NT was running on multiple hardware platforms: Intel, PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS.
>
>There are two editions of SQL Server that will run on the Win 9x platform: Desktop and MSDE.
>
>The downside:
>According to the license agreement, you must have a standard, enterprise, or small business server edition of SQL Server installed to install Desktop.
>
>MSDE on the other hand is distributable as long as you own Visual Studio or Office 2000 Developer - or whatever MS calls that thing.
>

Thanks Mike - you covered SQL Server installation options much better than I did, probably because you know it much, much better than I do... ;-)