So... I think the issue has been addressed...< s >...

>>>MSDE is SQL Server with some limitations.
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>> Like you and many others, I too was under the impression that MSDE was a flavor of SQL Server.
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>I think that it is mostly semantics, but maybe to shed some light on things...
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>One of my clients sent a programmer to NOLA, and he reported that one of the presenters (Duffy I think) had the crowd reciting "MSDE is SQL Server!".