Access

[Colin Pinkney]

On Wednesday 09 Jan 2008, Stew Schneider wrote:
> You know, one of the most recurrent problems is entering an office that
> has an Access app and realizing that this one app is going to keep them
> from the Linux world unless you are willing to dump the data to mysql or
> some such and then (the biggest headache) recreate the forms, queries
> and reports from scratch.
>
> I've never found a package that will do that. Anybody know of one?

Kexi in Koffice is very similar to MS Access and has early support for 
importing MDB files. It at least can import table schema and data. Obviously 
as MS Access has been around for so long, Kexi isn't going to be as mature 
but it looks quite solid to me.

See the Kexi website for more: http://www.kexi-project.org/

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Colin Pinkney
http://www.cpinkney.org.uk