Turned to be a very interesing thingy this MSDE, Neven. Thanks for drawing
attention to it. It may change many things around soon.
Of course it would not hurt to give some short description of it in the
initial message. Some people do not know what "data transformation stuff"
is and who Annie is, some might have never heard of MSDE.
Anyway, I have done some research and found some potential problems for non
MS developers. Here is what MS says:
Q: What are the redistribution terms for solutions built using MSDE?
A: Developers can freely distribute MSDE solutions built with Visual Studio
6.0 Professional or Enterprise edition development tools, or with Office
2000 Developer edition. See the End-User License Agreement (EULA) for the
full distribution and royalty terms.
I have not seen EULA, but this text seems to say that we have to develop in
MS tools.
This however may be a temporary problem as people say that MSDE is likely to
be built into Windows2000. So it'll just be there, making it easier for us
and ..... killing IB and others.
Regards
Alex
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