[Zope] MS Access interfacing (followup)

Further browsing and searching led me here: http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/ZClientMethod (thanks Loren!) That clears a fair bit of stuff up...either I call a prewritten query residing on the NT server, or install Zope on the NT server (not as bad an option as first thought, btw, as it's already running MS Internet Server, though just ftp services for now). But the option I really want, is being able to read the database directly. Now, since I don't need r/w access, just dumping data as html, at this point I have to wonder if exporting the database to something Linux Zope-readable might not be a better option. Suggestions? Criticisms? Recommendations? Bruce