Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (109 mails)

["David Selby" <IT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well the database engine that is used I am not to bothered with its get a
front end  looking and feeling similar to access as this meens the students
who have MS at home can still but in to practise what they have been shown
in school.

Dave 

Any one else remember the good days when pupils where encouraged to thing
outside the box! 
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lynch [mailto:ian.lynch@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 07 January 2005 11:11
To: Thomas Dyer
Cc: David Selby; 'SuSe'
Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] BETT

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:55, Thomas Dyer wrote:
> David,
> 
> I'd suggest that Rekall is actually a better "database" teaching tool than
> MS Access, and might fit with the requirements of the AS / A2 courses.
> 
> I've done quite a lot of testing of it with a highly customised linux
> distro (based loosely on SuSE 9.2) which we're using for some office
> desktop installations.
> 
> Alternatively, OpenOffice 1.9x has some interesting ideas at "database" in
> the latest beta, which show some promise.

HSQLDB (Java based) and SQLite have both been discussed. HSQLDB is the
choice of Sun engineers because it requires least work. Some FLOSS
purists don't like Java too much. These both have potential as Access
replacements but you can still connect to pretty much most Database
servers. At OpenOffice.org we like to provide choice and flexinility :-)
> 
> >From a "commercial" point of view, I'm interested in finding out how many
> schools are actually currently rolling out Linux onto their desktops.

Certainly an increasing number but its difficult to say exactly how many
and its often experiments and partial implementation.

-- 
Ian Lynch
Education lead OpenOffice.org community