Monday, November 22, 2004 - Posts

The death of JET database engine

The death of JET database engine

I was reading some posts about the imminent death of JET database engine (JET is the database engine of Access).

http://benjaminm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ea0c72a5-d7e2-4c74-bdcc-475beeba14fd

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/kenbrubaker/archive/2004/10/27/sqlserverexpressvsaccess.aspx

http://ea.3leaf.com/2004/10/sql_express_the.html

One must wonder what will happen to Exchange which used a custom version of the JET database engine. Thinking about it, also Active Directory uses ESE, a version of the JET database.