Access 2007 Runtime will be free

[shadow9449]

http://blogs.msdn.com/clintcovingto...me-and-developer-extensions-will-be-free.aspx

According to Clint Covington, Microsoft intends to release the runtime and developer extensions for free.

My opinion is that it should ALWAYS have been free instead of slapping us Access developers with an extra cost so our users don't need to pay hundreds of dollars more to use our applications. I can't think of ANY other development environment that has this drawback.

SHADOW

 

[accessman2]

It's good.

So, we can use it in the company without license, right.

 

[boblarson]

So, we can use it in the company without license, right.

Not really. Even if it is free, it still includes a license which can technically be revoked if they decide to do so. But it would mean that you could make a database and your users wouldn't have to have a full version of Access in order to use it.

I would be ecstatic if this is truly the case.