linux world inquiry about "access" for Linux

[Richard Soule]

* Warning - Talk about free commercial software below. Don't read if 
this offends you! *

While not open source, Oracle has a free version of it's database 
(Oracle XE) that includes something called Oracle Application Express 
(APEX). APEX can do all the things that Access does and was built to 
allow Access developers the ability to do what they do (build 
applications pretty quickly without a lot of understanding of 
complicated database concepts) on Oracle instead of on MS.

APEX is included with every version of Oracle.

Oracle XE is free to develop, deploy and distribute. Whatever the size 
of the machine it is installed on it will only use 1 processor and 1 GB 
of memory and can hold a limit of 4 GB of data, but other than that it's 
Oracle 10g.

Rich

APEX:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/index.html

Oracle XE:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html

Thomas Charron wrote:

>   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 <mailto: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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