At the recent open source in education conference in london there was apparently a lot of discussion in regards to a simple database frontend (at the time I was stuck in a samba course I should have been teaching) anyway, as some of you might know Trinity High School in Manchester is moving to a dual boot enviroment as of september, and with Chris leaving for an even better paid job everything has ended up being dumped on me to do. One of these 'little jobs' was to see if I could get an access clone called flexidata runing under wine, and well it doesnt just run under wine, it practically gallops. Just about every feature works exactly as well as it does in its native enviroment and its approved by the NC as an access alternative for teaching upto 3rd years. The only problems it has are the help files are in the mshelp format (but talking to the developers they are moving towards a HTML format) and that the demo you can request for free from the flexible software website is required to be in the machine whilst you run it, and for some reason its incapable of identifying the CD in the drive, thankfully the developers gave me a license key for a CDless installation. A schools site license costs about £300 and you can learn more here: http://www.flexible.co.uk/FlexiDATA3.html Regards, Ben