Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
This isn't true either, at least for Access. I haven't used the Developer Editions (or in 2003 the Access 2003 Developer Extensions) but users do not need Office to use Access applications developed with these tools.

Obtain and deploy the Access 2003 runtime
Yes, Access has runtimes that can be distributed, but the other apps cannot be distributed.

IN any case, I expect that most Access developers use VB, or whatever, rather than an Office developer product.