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Ok this is the problem. My boss created several databases in a DOS program called Nutshell(1984). The contacts database file alone is over 3000 records. I want to export these files into something post-stoneage(i.e.SQLServer). I am a relitivaly accomplished data manipulator, but this thing...

I really can't answer for accually selling software on these sites. I do know that those sites are shareware/freeware sites and most of the time people go to them looking for a quick fix for a temporary problem. I have purchased software off twocows before but it was a killer auction tracking...

WHATEVER, when used as a conversation terminator, has to be the most annoying word on the planet. Anyone with teenagers will agree.

Very good. Thanks for all your help guys. I think I will just end up using access as a back end and writing a GUI to interface with it. I have experience with crystal reports and VS.net 03 loaded on my system at home so I will probably use that for the reporting. Again thanks for all your advice.

If they can read and write to the database that is really all i need I can create the forms and reports in VB can't I. I am not really sure the extent of VB capabilities. I know enough of the language to be dangerous. Guess I will be better at it by the end of this. Geez we are working with...

ok so if i created a vb or c++ interface with access I should be able to install that on the user system and they will be able to access the data?

I need to know if it is possible for someone that does not have access loaded on their computer to use an application written in access. If not, is it possible to write an interface that will call it from a different computer, like you would SQLserver.