It has worked for me (Score 1)

I've been doing this for about 6 months now. Here is some advice: The ODBC drivers are buggy, but they are stable enough for production use (honestly). It's imperative that you match the correct driver with the correct version of windows. We've found that some versions work on W95C and but not on B. Really weird, but that's M$ for you. We've only used Access for simple databases, but we have a huge database written in Paradox running through the Boreland Data Engine and then through the MySQL ODBC driver connected to a FreeBSD box running MySQL. It works great. Personally I'm really happy with the interface. One last note. DO NOT use Access for databases that are accessed by more than a few people at a time unless you have _some_ sort of SQL server on the back end. The native concurrency stuff in Access doesn't work worth a hoot when you've got a lot of users. You end up with corrupted .mdb files every other day. Personally, I recommend the Access->ODBC->MySQL setup. You can't beat the price on the server end!