[wellylug] Open Source alternative to MS Access?

[Jonathan Harker]

Damon Lynch wrote:

> 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!

Believe me - instead, we get a super-complex non-normalised tangle of colossal 
database tables with magic columns and data values that even the one person 
has lost control of!

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:-)
Back to work...

Cheers,
J