There are several free open-source projects on the web, however from the looks of it none are comparable to ms access. So the next best thing is to use some webservice combined with some database language. I was thinking about PHP+RUBY RAILS for the db forms + POSTGRESQL. Any other suggestions?
Try Gambas. It's a full IDE environment (including editor, debugger, runtime, icon editor, database connection wizard, etc) for developing in a Object oriented BASIC environment, or in other words it's a clone of Visual Basic without some of the more ridiculous things in VB. The site actually lists the differences from VB and there is a VB compatibility module (not finished yet).
It's damn impressive suite and it has build in support for MySQL, Postgress and SQLite - the last being an in process database (no server needed, just like MS Jet).
The GUI is qt based, so you get decent Hebrew support (it's not perfect, but the bugs I found are very minor to the point of calling them cosmetic)
I'm writing an Israeli financial documentation system with it right now for kicks (because I don't want a web based one and because it's a great excuse to experience working with Gambas) and my only complaint thus far is that the documentation is not as 100% full as I would like (but it exists and pops up when you hit F1)
And of course, it's GPLed. :-)
In short, check it out:
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/
Gilad
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