>>I would not be surprised if it also had a built-in data engine as oppossed to hooking into SQL Server or Access.
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>>Not likely, at least not in this next version.
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>I think the "built in data engine" is MSDE, already in use as a replacement for Jet/mdb and to make it easy to scale to SQL-Server.

MSDE is SQL Server, of course, so it's not built-in, like he was suggesting. But I agree with you that a real built-in data engine is very unlikely any time soon, if ever.