Office Developer License 1

[bonopips]

Hello to everyone.
I'm a newbie in IT world. I'm developing an application in Access2000 that interact with Excel using VBA for creating some

charts.
The intention is to sell the final product to a large number of society. Now it comes the legal part:
a friend of mine told me that I need something like an Office Developer License to sell the final application. I visit the

Microsoft Web Site to find some information abuot this license and I find an enormous number of license that a developer can

buy. So I ask in this forum to someone who have more experience than me: what is the license I should by to legally sell my

applications? where I can buy it?

Thanks a lot, Bonopips

 

[lupins46]

You have two licensing issues here.
First - Access.
If you were able to obtain the Office 2000 Developer Tools then that gives you (a) the license to distribute a run time version of Access2000 which in theory allows users to run an Access application without having Access installed on their machine and (b) the Pacakage and Deployment wizard which, in theory, enables you to create the distribution package for your installation onto other machines.
Two key problems:
First, you will have to search hard for a copy of A2000 Developer Tools. Probably EBay or some other second ussr source.
Second, this only works in theory; in practise it can take a lot of work to get the installation working on any particular configuration.

Next - Excel:
As far as I know there is no way you can distribute other Office applications with your Access application other than by the user buying a full copy of that application.

Overall, Access is not a good product to use for development of applications which are to be installed as run-time systems on unknown configurations. You need something with better deployment capabilities such as VB.

 

[Harlequin007]

Guys

I've been looking into this recently and Office 2k Dev is no longer available.

Guess what - they never made an Office 2003 Developer.

this is what you have to do:

Purchase Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (OEM)
Purchase Visual Studio .net Professional

Cost: $1,079 (I was quoted).

Not that bad for me (in the UK).

Hope that helps a little.

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[Harlequin007]

PS: Get intouch with a reseller - they'll get the software much cheaper for you.

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[lupins46]

>this is what you have to do:

>Purchase Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (OEM)
>Purchase Visual Studio .net Professional

>Cost: $1,079 (I was quoted)'

This is not quite right.
The product that contains the Access Developer Extensions for A2003 is called :
Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System.

This is not the same product as Visual Studio .Net

 

[Harlequin007]

Sorry Lupin

I was reading from a Post-it on my screen and you're right. One row down on my post-it I have the other studio product.

Price should be right though. However, I would always buy through a UK reseller anyway. Unless I could save significant sums of cash buying US of-course.

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[psemianonymous]

Oh yeah--this is not legal advice, as I am not a lawyer.

There are no extra licensing issues with the database now that you're selling it. So if your clients have Office 2000 Pro installed, they already have licenses for Access and Excel, so you won't have to buy any sort of 'developer distribution edition'. Just 'deploy' the MDB/MDE file like any other database. You can 'sell' a database without the developer's edition of Office--I don't think anyone above clarified this point.


But if your clients DON'T have Access, then you will need the Office Developer's Edition, or the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), depending on which version you want to get. This still doesn't give you a license to use Excel, which you mentioned your application uses--your clients would have to already have Excel installed.


So basically, if your app needs Excel anyway, just tell your clients to install Office (Pro) on every machine using the database...or am I missing something?


Pete

 

[bonopips]

Thank to everyone for your replies,
I've been out for a while so I read this topic just today.

To foolio12:

I've Office 2000 Pro installed, I used it to develope my application.
Now I'll sell my product and to all clients who will have their Office2000 Pro already installed.

So you mean I'm not out of law if I sell my product this way?
I don't need any other MS license to sell it?

Thanks, bonopips

 

[psemianonymous]

Note I'm not a lawyer...

but yeah, you'll be fine selling an MDE without some 'developer' version of Access.