>From the SQL Server 2000 Evaulation Guide:
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>"·SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) offers the basic database engine features of SQL Server 2000. It does not include a user interface, management tools, analysis capabilities, merge replication support, client access licenses, developer libraries, or Books Online. It also limits database size and user workload. It has the smallest footprint of any edition of SQL Server 2000 and is thus an ideal embedded or offline data store."
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>It it ain't SQL Server, then what is it? And it's certainly going to be included in some future SQL cert tests. You might be right at some core level, but if it looks like a duck, floats like a duck, and quacks...it's a duck :-)

PFJI, butlast night I finally decided to install MSDE at home and it poped a "SQL Server 7.0 Developers edition" installation setup dialog...Server and Desktop are available.
I bought the CD in the MS website months ago.
Changes in marketing tactics, maybe?