[Gllug] alternative to MS Access

[Andrew Farnsworth]

David Coles wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, fendersan at aol.com wrote:
>
>   
>> Can anyone recommend an alternative to MS Access?
>>
>> I'm looking for a user-friendly, multi-user, file-based, relational 
>> database system.
>>
>> I just want database without a database server or web server.
>>     
>
> OpenOffice.org Database is pretty similar to what I remember Access being 
> like when I last used it in the mid 90s. I've not been able to continue 
> using it for more than about half an hour though.
>
> Just tried it in Ubuntu 7.10 actually and it seemed slightly less painful.
>
> I have no idea how it copes with multiuser however.
>
> --
> David
>
>   


Have you looked into the Derby project by the Apache Foundation?

Andy
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