[wellylug] Open Source alternative to MS Access?

Klenner, Colin colin.klenner at eds.com
Wed Nov 19 10:35:20 NZDT 2003


Damon,
Would you give us a report at the February meeting, please? If you are
sucessful then a show'n'tell would be great as well?

Colin

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On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 21:17, Klenner, Colin wrote:
> Read all about it here: 
> http://www.thekompany.com/press_media/full.php3?Id=242
> <http://www.thekompany.com/press_media/full.php3?Id=242>

I'm definitely going to give this a try -

1) It uses python
2) Access type programs have a place in allowing non-experts to utilise
databases.  This has issues, but is often better than the alternative, which
is typically a super-complex spreadsheet that only one person can
understand!

Damon
> ~~~
> Colin Klenner


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