Access Runtime

Once upon a time there was Access 2000, and if you wanted to deploy an application throughout your company you had two choices:

1. Buy Access for every pc you needed the application to run on
2. Buy the developer edition / Access runtime, which made it possible to distribute your .mdb application and distribute only the access runtime ("freely" since you didn't have to buy one for every pc).

Now with Office 2007 Microsoft made the developer edition an add-on of Access2007, and made it FREE!

The addon and the runtime are downloadable from MS sites, and are greatly improved, permitting to deploy application through a setup.