[AccessD] Future of Access?

Hello all!

I'm in the process of putting together a document for my company. We are
bidding for a contract that will last for at least 30 years. I'm proposing
the use of an existing database created using A97 to manage one aspect of
this contract. I suspect that Access 97 will not be supported (or indeed
supportable) come 2033. I need to put in some upgrade path. I'm thinking
along the lines of:

A97 upgrade to A2k in the next few years.
A2k to SQL(?) in 2005
Then what?

Anyone got a hotline to the future?

Is SAP going to be the next big thing or .NET or XML or....?

Any comments gratefully received.

I appreciate that predicting the death of Access on databaseadvisors.com is
a bit OT >;O

Best regards!
Chris Foote