You don't need to tell me about the demerits of Access - I have been convinced of that a long time ago. What alternative could I use (if any)? I need something that can even be tailored to year 7's.
There are quite a few DB frontends such as mergeant, knoda and rekall/totalrekall, however none are really simple although they will do the job at A level. As for the really simple stuff, its in development but as of this moment the only alternative I've found is Flexidata running under wine.
As far as the macromedia suite is concerned, I just cant get it installed with wine -- even though I have read reports posted from people who say they can. Have any of you tried this and won?
http://www.frankscorner.org/ has information regarding getting it running under wine and macromedia are porting their apps over to linux. Infact I think they have recently released a version optimised to run under wine in the meantime.
Do you know of any decent GPL school Administration system replacement I can get my hands on?
Schooltool, but thats not really ready yet, weve decided to go with CMIS for the next 3 years at the cost of £20,000 a year due to their webbased eportal system rahter than windows based client software. Unfortunately the company wrote eportal with IE specific javascript, and although its only a minor feature (navigation tabs) and a quick fix, they refuse to change the code. Regards, Ben