On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:07 -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access?
There are a lot of different bits of software that do some of the things that access does. Some of them try to be a little more like Access than others. Rekall does not have a built-in database, but seems to be useful for building forms for mysql/postgres. It seems to have forked... the sources are: http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/ http://www.rekallrevealed.org/index.shtml Gambas has been making the rounds on the various news sites recently, and claims to be a VB-like environment. http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ OpenOffice has a lot of cool database features that you might not expect, and is programmable in StarBasic http://dba.openoffice.org is a useful, if cluttered resource http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf is a helpful overview of the sorts of stuff you can accomplish. My personal preference is usually python + sqlite/postgres + gtk + glade. Could you explain a bit about what you're trying to accomplish? There might be a solution that fits best based on that. Good luck. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
