Your understanding of what the runtime allows you to do is correct.
Now, Microsoft only sells the current version of Office, so all you can get
officially is the runtime for Access 2003. To do that, you need to purchase
the following in order to create an Access 2003 runtime application:
- Microsoft Access 2003
- Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 (which includes the Access 2003
Developer Extensions)
The ADE is the product that gives you the license to deploy the 2003 runtime
components and you have to have Access 2003 installed in order to install
the ADE.
If you want the runtime for an older version of Access, you're looking for
Office nn Developer (where nn can be 97, 2000 or XP). One possibility is to
check out sites that specialize in old software products, such as
http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/ or
http://recycledsoftware.com/
Another is to look at someplace like eBay to see whether anyone's trying to
see their old versions (Note, though, that products purchased this way
aren't always legal...)
--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
(No private e-mails, please)
Neall said:
We are looking at using Access in our office (BUG Database) however we do
not need access at every desktop (minimize cost) I was told that all the
other users of the access DB would only require the microsoft ACCESS runtime
client, to access and view the database. Also if the user has a runtime
client can they still add bugs to the Access database (example)? My
understanding is they can do anything but create views,preform adds, but
just cannot make any changes to the DB unless access is installed
