Access

[ronw at paradise.net.nz]

What about the base product included with OpenOffice?

Quoting Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:

> Art Alexion wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 10 January 2008 13:57:39 Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> I don't think you're _ever_ going to find that in a Linux
> environment.
> >> What's the value? Â Linux users mostly don't care if it's all-in-one,
> and
> >> developers are actively against it. Â It breaks the principles of
> using
> >> one tool for one action, decoupling interface from implementation,
> and
> >> enabling migration of data.
> > 
> > Right, but you can do something along the lines of Kontact that
> integrates
> > the parts. 
> 
> I completely agree, but the OP didn't want to do that. I think something
> that could provide an Access type form & report front-end to any
> relational
> database is workable, desirable, and might even get the resources needed
> for development, but to do it in a single app, tightly coupled to the
> database is just not likely to happen.
> 
> If somebody could figure out how to import the forms & reports from
> access
> into such a tool, it would be a dynamite app (importing the queries is
> trivial, and ODBC can already handle the actual data and table
> definitions).
> 
> > The killer, at this point, in heterogeneous environments is the 
> > inability to work with the forms, queries and reports.
> 
> I agree (there are tools that will handle the query part). 
> -- 
> derek
> 
> 
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Ron Wilson