[Gllug] Access Database to MySQL / PostreSQL

[Xander D Harkness]

Bernard Peek wrote:

>
> Knoda seems to be a conscious attempt to clone Access under Linux. 
> It's moving slowly though. If I was Larry Ellison I'd hand over a 
> million dollars to get Knoda turned into a commercial quality product. 
> (Or else buy Paradox from Corel. Paradox was once the biggest 
> competitor to Access.) The combination of a Knoda front-end and an 
> Oracle back-end would be a great application development system. Right 
> now Microsoft doesn't have any competition in that area.
>
> A lot of organisations start off with an Access application and take 
> the natural path of moving to SQL Server when it grows. That's one of 
> the ways that Microsoft is taking over the database market. Oracle 
> can't stop them.
>
>
I did stick the web front end in as a poke, hoping to spur discussion 
about a front end.  It is something I will need.  Automatic reports 
could be done using a scripting query, thrown out to ps2pdf and then to 
mail etc.

However the users do need an interface to enter and manipulate the 
data.  It seems that knoda is okay for interactive reports; and it looks 
like the editing facilities to update fields is usable.  Not very 
advanced; however I do not think that the databases used are overly complex.

Wow a possible solution, how extremely exciting.

I now need to wade through the pool of very dubious Access 97 databases!!

Have fun
Xander


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