Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Sun Apr 13 12:01:58 CDT 2003
If you have the Developer edition you can create ship your app with an Access run-time, and then your customers won't need a copy of Access. However, lots of people on this list seem to think the best way to create an installation program is using the Wise/Sage stuff, which will run you another grand I think. (I don't have it so can't attest to its virtues.) I have not had problems creating installations with the standard Developer stuff. In fact I just recently created one that has to copy a .bak file from the CD and then run some code I wrote using SQL-DMO that performs a restore onto an MSDE database. Everything works like a charm. The user can decide where she wants the ADE file, where she wants the physical MSDE data file and where she wants the MSDE database itself. We've been testing it for a couple of weeks on various machines and it works flawlessly. Your mileage may vary, depending on such things as your reliance on Office automation, DLLs and so on. If it's possible in your app, I would suggest adding code that will prevent the app from running after X days. Then you can offer a free evaluation download, and the folks who like it enough will buy it. Arthur -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Scott Gage Sent: April 13, 2003 10:29 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] Legal stuff Legal stuff Okay, I've built a nifty little solution in Access and I want to sell it. Can I license it and if so what is the correct way to indicate in my License Agreement that MSAccess is needed to run the app. What is my real ownership with this idea? Do I own anything without writing it in VB or another language? I feel very unprotected. I just don't want to step on Bill's toes. He has a lot more money then I do. ===== -------------------- Scott T. Gage Scott.gage at promedica.org 419.291-7177 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com