Querying without C/ODBC

A few of us are today doing a lot of querying with installed C/ODBC driver. Now we need to distribute a VisualBasic application that should make the query. It would be nice if we could implement this without needing the C/ODBC installation on every workstation. Is that possible i some way ?

run your navision on a SQL server. then you do not need to used C/odbc anymore. it is cheaper this way, as any conenction in c/odbc would require one concurrent license. but you have to purchase sql server and it’s licenses though. so i think it would make out to be the same.