Nobody has yet mentioned the problem of stored proceedures, VB macros and
VB display elements (forms/user interface) that can exist in a .mdb Can
Linux handle these in some way.  ODBC/JDBC works well into mysql (and can
be used as a backend to an access .mdb that handles the display side of
things, but this just handles raw data, the major advantage of access is
all the (admittedly flaky) add ons - thats why its used so widely, and I
have never seen a Linux way to handle these.

BillK

> > Certainly they can, but (correct me if I'm  wrong) not with the Access
> > database as-is.  They'll need to convert it to another format and
probably to
> > write a bit of code to access it  from the web server.
> 

