software suggestions (fire department)

[Knapp]

Hello Mike, I would bet being a fire department that you would be able
to get a lot of help setting this up. We all like to be saved and I
think many would like to help you do it.

If others don't have ideas perhaps you could start a small open source
project to get what you need.

So open source there are 2 main programs for SQL mysql and postgree sql.

Mysql is not totally open source as best I can tell but is still used
by a lot of people but owned by one company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql

PostgreSQL is totally open source and is very good too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL

Well that is all I can add. I know others will follow with much more info.

Good luck!

Douglas