>It will be a small DB (less than 500Mb) with less than 20 concurrent users.

Will it always remain this small? If so, I don't know why MSDE couldn't handle it unless your 20 users are active enough to hit the 5-concurrent batches limit that MSDE has.

-Mike

>I have 2 options: MSDE on 2000 PRO or install 2000 server and install SQL Server 2k.
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>It will be a small DB (less than 500Mb) with less than 20 concurrent users.
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>Cen I simply use MSDE, since it will be much cheaper than having to buy Windows server 2k and SQL server 2k ???
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>On my other server, I have both SQL Server 2k and Win2K.
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>Thanks.