I'd have to recomend against Access. Do you really want Office installed on a server? Did you know Outlook and Exhcange cannot reside on the same server? Could there be other comptibility isues you may run into later on (e.g. what if they want to put SQL Server on there later on)? Do you want to have to upgrade it at Microsft's whim or lose security patches, etc? If you are using Microsoft Update then it will want to update Access as well. And what happens when the project outgrows Access? You are better off picking MySQL or Postgres-SQL from the get go. My US$0.02 anyway.