linux world inquiry about "access" for Linux

Python python at venix.com
Sat Sep 23 09:35:01 EDT 2006


While I was at the GNHLUG booth, a couple stopped by to ask about a
Linux equivalent to Microsoft Access.  We looked at the ooffice database
module, but I was not very successful in attempting to drive it.  No one
else at the booth then had any thing else to suggest.

I just installed rekall (2.4.3 onto Fedora 5) and was quickly able to
use it with a MySQL database.  It appears to offer a lot of the kinds of
things (queries, forms, reports, macros, scripts) that Access provides.
I don't know if rekall would satisfy someone with Access applications to
port to Linux, but it seems to be a step in that direction.

-- 
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp




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