There are some hosting solutions which provide using Access as a database server and then upgrading to SQL server later as the need arises, but it appears that this is not recommended protocol. This leads me to believe we should be using SQL server as our backbone database program and then any Access database, if used at all, would have a limited role in the final solution. Actually the recommended solution and more cost effective, at least from the beginning, would be MySQL on Unix instead of SQL Server on Windows.
Please get back to me ASP on your thoughts on this and any proofs as to whether this may not be the correct assumption.