What sort of partner support is out there for the Microsoft Office Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit?
Sigler: The Access Conversion Toolkit is completely open meaning that the source code for the Access MDB is part of the toolkit, the Visual Basic® executable code is there and the reporting front end is totally open. Partners can use it as is — as a Microsoft-branded toolkit; however, we also envision that partners will pick it up, build their own solutions on top of it and brand it as their own. The Access Conversion Toolkit cannot, and was not intended to, solve every problem or provide every reporting solution. The scanning tool collects a lot more information than we use, and I think for the most part, partners will add additional reporting and analysis tools around the XML files that are generated. In fact, they can even leverage the toolkit, not as a one-time conversion thing, but as a way to monitor their Access usage moving forward. We plan to establish a group of recommended partners to walk customers through the conversion process. It should be noted that the Microsoft Offic
