Microsoft Dexterity Customization future: Alba Spectrum Dallas - Microsoft Dexterity or former Great Plains Dexterity was designed in earlier 1990th with assumption that C programming language will provide computer platform independence: Microsoft Windows vs. Mac or Solaris/Unix, plus database independence or at least easy switch: Ctree, Pervasive SQL/Btrieve, MS SQL Server, Oracle, DBII, etc. Dexterity architecture was transferred to MS Visual C++ somewhere around 1999 with some additional bug fixing work, however pretty flawless. When Microsoft purchased Great Plains Software on the edge of XXI Century, the basis of Dexterity lost its actuality – in fact Microsoft Business Solutions actively moved toward phasing out all the other platforms, but MS SQL Server by introducing MSDE platform – free version of SQL Server, without some tools, however. Let’s look at MS Dexterity from this angle: • Database Access.