[Gllug] Alternative to MS Access

[Riq]

Is it really possible to have reliable multi-user without using a server?
I would go with OpenOffice and a MySQL backend.

However, I am finding OpenOffice Base rather un-intuitive.
Perhaps someone has found some good documentation?

Riq


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> From: "Richard Cottrill" <richard_c at tpg.com.au>
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> 2008/10/17 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:25:14AM +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:
>>> jfreechart might do it
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>>> http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/samples.html
>> Chartjunk-tastic.  You'd think that people who do charts for a living
>> would have read Tufte ...
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> jfreechart is a great way to make a simple problem really hard. The
> lack of documentation is made crippliing by it's byzantine API,
> rubbish javadocs, and bugs. You can find a bunch of examples on the
> internet if you look hard (I don't have a link to hand) that pre-date
> the policy of "pay for usable documentation and example code".
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> I'll chuck in gnuplot (which makes the simple stuff easy, and the hard
> stuff potentially in reach of a dedicated team of professionals).
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> Richard
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> I'm looking for a user-friendly, multi-user, file-based, relational database system. 
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> I just want database without a database server or web server.
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