Hi all, Staroffice 5.2 is now supplied with Adabas D - might be worth a look. Windows optimum is Access?????? Try Lotus Approach, dead easy to use, multiuser access and will read almost anything, even links to ProgreSQL / MySQL via ODBC from Windows. Only problem is it has not been ported to Linux. PostgreSQL is not difficult to use once you get used to - currently investigating possibility of moving school admin onto a PostgreSQL server..... Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School Edgehill E-Mail Service wrote:
Hi, all.
Daft question: Can anyone help with any ideas about databases? Specifically, we need something intermediate between the "looks like a spreadsheet" and the mega-fully-featured SQL systems. I haven't had much time to play with the SQL systems on SuSE to figure how well they will suit (so I'm asking advice).
Having been raised on standalone Image, dBase, Paradox etc. systems, the SQL server-client architecture is a bit of a mystery to me, yet.
Reasons: Our pupils are currently using Access - which has a very gentle learning curve from first contact, and rapid development time to first database. The educational requirements are that the database table-set is created entirely by the user, and the Windows optimum has been Access. I would like to find a Linux equivalent.
This lies as our current sticking-point to migration to Linux next summer, and I would like to be able to get things moving soon.
Thanks, in advance,
Paul.
Paul P. Ellison, Information and Communications Technology Manager Edgehill College, Devon
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