Hi Rod,

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>It is pretty easy to setup SQL server at a customer site. Me and Duff have been working on a commercial shrink wrap piece of software that uses MSDE as its base. This app (built in VB6) is designed to be easy to install by a user. We spent a great deal of time helping build that interface. It is also fully scalable from desktop to enterprise with NO code changes. It can be done. I know this because we did it.
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>Was it easy ? No. It took some time to get right. Primarility because we put the MSDE installer in our installer and that was a PITA. If we had been able to install SQL Server seperately it would have been a heck of a lot easier.
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How did you end up handling the issue? I recently put together a VB6/MSDE installer myself in WISE. I found out pretty quickly that the merge modules were useless, and ended up using the standard MSDE executable installer from MS. That worked pretty well for us.

By the way, I hope you don't mind me bringing a technical discussion into this forum. <g>