A Moving to Linux Question

[James]

Hi Ric

> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 16:35 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ric Moore 
<wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > To date, for instance, we still don't have an actual equivalent to 
MS
> > > Access ...that is a drop-in replacement to handle an existing 
Access
> > > database, unless you go through the contortions of exporting 
and
> > > importing into OpenOffice Database.
> > 
> > Well, we *are* talking about Access here, right?  Do we *really* 
want
> > a drop-in replacement for something that ghastly?
> > 
> > Just sayin'....
> 
> I hear ya! I just get files to deal with, from our Windows addicted
> staff members, and I'm still in stealth mode to convert them and 
theiropen office
> pet data projects over to Linux. Ole Arlo was right, what we got here 
is
> a "movement", ...towards the "Right Thing". It ain't, by any stretch, 
a
> "Fait accompli". :) Ric

Out of curioustity I decided to look thru synaptic and came across 
mdbtools-gmdb. Might that be functional? As I have no need of it I've 
never tried it but maybe worth a shot?

James