John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Donn Washburn wrote:
A nice frontend for MySQL is phpMyAdmin. easy to setup and admin.
AFAICT, though, none of the web-based SQL front ends offer anything like decent reporting tools for print. They are ideal for on-screen work, but not for output for clients.
What I need is something like FileMaker, Datapower or even Access -
You got that right!!!!!! If they'd only port FileMaker!!!
something that can create easy-to-use, flexible forms and produce attractive, businesslike reports. I've been surprised that there is so little middle-level database stuff for linux. There are the high-power SQL back ends, and powerful command-line or web-based front ends, but little that's actually sat down and tried to implement a user-based database rather than a developer-based one.
Thanks for the pointers so far - I'll look into them. Any other ideas?
This has been one of my complaints, as all I, and I suspect the majority of users want and need, is a FileMaker for Linux, and there's NOTHING available, not even on the horizon. Fred -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org