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Originally Posted by Vorph  Generally for the built-in forms and reporting tools. You can link an Access db to a view of a SQL database and someone with little to no database skills can easily work with it. The data engine not being robust enough for website/multi-user usage is irrelevant. |
Which is exactly what its good for, once you decouple the engine from the interface it's not a bad little product that all the Bobs from accounting are comfortable with. It can be handy for laying out tables on SQL Server too.
As the IT guy your in a good position to total up how much it will cost to bring the company into license compliance as an upfront sum and recurring and use that to justify alternative investment. Outlook is a fairly decent IMAP client after all, and short of the Calendar stuff it's not a big change in workflow to move the backend. Samba is fine if your okay with running in a Domain rather than AD, i'm sure little companies only want network folders and logins anyway.