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[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> On Monday 30 April 2007 05:57, Mark Wallace wrote:
>> It annoys me thoroughly that the class that I am taking in Access only
>> wants assignments submitted in Microsoft formats.
> 
> Is it really inappropriate for a class about Access to want students to
> use
> Access?  It would be different if the class was generically about desktop
> database managers.
 
I work on the software helpdesk at Athabasca University, and our students
can use hsql instead of Access for their basic database course.  For real
database work they're using Oracle (oracle-xe isn't Free, but it IS
available free of charge as a .deb, guaranteed to work on Ubuntu).
-- 
derek