Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (139 mails)

[Ben Higginbottom <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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