Glom database front-end

Paul M. Bucalo ubuntuser at pmbservices.com
Fri Jul 1 10:36:33 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:11 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> Someone suggested this as an easy high level design tool to develop 
> basic database applications / database front-ends.  It will be part of 
> the next Ubuntu release, which is good news! ( http://www.glom.org , 
> thanks for the suggestion!!)
> 
> It is however Linux-only and not cross-platform it seems.. That would 
> make it difficult to implement for customers who use Windows on most of 
> their office computers.
> 
> Does anyone know of something that's similar in ease of use, but also 
> runs cross-platform?  (Something Java based perhaps).  I know of Servoy 
> which is not free. (Not cheap either at 279 US$ per concurrent user).
> 
> Cheers,
> Chanchao


A quick suggestion:

SQuirrel SQL
http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/

>From Article:
http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/101120401.asp

I found one other (I have been looking for a decent GUI that would not
only manage but also build forms for end-user use) that was Java-based,
but can't get my hands on the URL right now. I'll pass on to you it and
any others I find.

Paul





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