Access 2000 and Access 97

[Roger Lee]

We are still using Access 97 at our site and Access 97 is
installed on each workstation.

However, recently, the developer of an application says
that the app is developed by Access 2000 & we have to get
Access 2000 installed (So that we can run his app).

At the present moment, end users access a couple of Access
97 Databases that will not be converted to Access 2000 in
the near future.

Should I ask the developer whether end users can install
Access 2000 runtime version (So that his application can
be run) and keep Access 97 on users' workstations so that
they can still use the Access 97 databases.

However, from newsgroups, it seems that there are a lot of
problems for the co-existence of both Access 2000 runtime
cum Access 97.

I would like to seek your advice on the best way to handle
it.

Thanks

 

[Roger Lee]

The reason for not installing Access 2000 on their
machines is because they may attempt to open those Access
97 databases with Access 2000. If they choose convert,
users at other sections will have problem on using them.

Thanks