Basically, the database would be managed in Access, doesn't mean it couldn't be output as a CSV though. Basically the only time the information would change is if we aquired new equipment, or if a manufacter's website changed. Just the simple stuff. There would be nothing written to the database from a web service, it would only be read by the web site, and hopefully used to whip up HTML pages based on the information it contains.
I hope that was more helpful.

Thanks,
Chris DeGrace