Access

[Larry Hartman]

I started working with OpenOffice.org Base two weeks ago and spent hours 
learning how to make a button control on one form open another form....there 
is potential with this program but the documentation is woefully inadequate 
to get people started quickly.  There is strong potential here to solve this 
problem, but lots of development needed yet to make it mature.

As I begun working, I soon realized that HTML MySQL PHP, while heavier 
applications, would be much easier to learn and program than a Base file.  
The documentation for all of these applications are far richer both online 
and commercially than anything I saw for the Visual Basic and UNO system that 
OpenOffice.org employs--so while the learning curve is steeper, it has much 
more efficient tools to help climb the hill.

Larry


On Thursday 10 January 2008 01:11:20 am Neil Winchurst wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:37 -0500
>
> Stew Schneider <stew.schneider at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You know, one of the most recurrent problems is entering an office that
> > has an Access app and realizing that this one app is going to keep them
> > from the Linux world unless you are willing to dump the data to mysql or
> > some such and then (the biggest headache) recreate the forms, queries
> > and reports from scratch.
> >
> > I've never found a package that will do that. Anybody know of one?
> >
> > stew
>
> Back in the days when I used Windows I used to write databases for
> small companies. I used Borland Paradox which was similar to Access but
> IMHO much better. Anyway I was quite successful and made a reasonable
> career out of it.
>
> I have been using just Linux for about six years now. I found that
> everything I wanted to do was available except a database in the
> Access, Paradox style. I have always considered this to be a big
> problem for Linux users and over the years since then I have not seen
> the situation get much better.
>
> I have looked at Rekall, Knoda, Kexi and others but, as far as I know,
> there is still not anywhere in Linux an equivalent to Access or
> Paradox, even after six years of waiting. What I am referring to here
> is a program which contains everything in the one package, the so
> called monolithic database. Yes, I know that there are front ends to
> mysql et al and I accept that that is one way to go. But, I still
> believe that an all-in-one database package for Linux, à la Access, is
> needed and would be welcomed by many.
>
> Just my two pennyworth.
>
> Neil Winchurst