Just to clarify my point a bit, MS ships ODBC with MS Office on the Mac and includes a driver for Excel. You can also get drivers for Fox Pro and FileMaker, however MS claims (via email) that "no odbc driver exists for Access on the Macintosh and we have no plans to develop drivers on this platform." or something along those lines. This was back in October of 2000, so things may have changed.

Also, upgrading to OSX won't help in this case (getting data out of an Access *.MDB file) since you are still dependent on Microsoft to create a method of accessing their proprietary database format. OSX will give the option to use MySQL or PostgreSQL.

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