>>>The only disadvantage that I can see to using SQL-server, Oracle, DB2, etc. is the cost.
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>>With the release of MSDE this becomes much less of an issue.
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>I have been aware of MSDE but I haven't looked into the pricing. Does it ship with Visual Studio? Is there a charge to set one up at the client site?
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>I think MS says that it's optimized for a max of 6 users. (Can go higher, of course.) So is it really an option in the range that I was describing (10 to 30 workstations)?
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>Thanks for the tip.
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Peter,

MSDE is so new I'm not sure if anyone klnows all there is about it yet. I believe that it will be part of Win 2000 so clients will already have it. Work done with it is directly transportable to SQL Server, so if a project starts using MSDE and then gets too large for MSDE SQL Server can be dropped in place without changing much of anything.