A family of Microsoft relational database management systems designed for ease of use.
Right. I explainned wrong. What I wanted to say is that you can design an access application that works without Office (using Access Runtime), but if you designed it to use a table or a graphical graph, you need to use Excel and therefore you need Microsoft Office to do so. It has lost a great tool of data exploitation through Access, and has been derived to another tool that forces the user to have Excel to be able to do the same as before. This is sometimes difficult to explain to the end customer of a development.