linux world inquiry about "access" for Linux

[Thomas Charron]

  The largest difference is that Access each application is self contained.
Aka, no real database dependecy besides MSJET, which is distributed with
windows itself.

  Thomas

On 9/23/06, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
>
> 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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