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On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:52:38 +0000 Craig <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have moved over to Linux on everything but my 6 year old's games and Databases. Don't look for much luck on the first but would like some help with the last. I use MS Access at work and home, looking for a Linux database program that I could move to. Preferably something with the same structure as Access. Any help suggestions appreciated. --
Your original email has brought up some interesting replies. Anyway here is my final say. I have written many databases for small companies, originally DOS based then later Windows based. I have tried out very many programs and I finally settled on Borland Paradox. I found this to be the easiest to set up and it was rock solid (as far as any Windows program can be). No client ever had any problems with it. One of the things that I liked most about it was the search facility which was very powerful yet easy for clients to use. Since moving to Linux I have found that the one area where there is not at the moment anything to compare with Windows programs is an equivalent to Paradox or Access. It simply does not exist. There are database programs, of course, some of them very powerful, but as far as I have been able to discover none of them is self-contained. What do I mean by that? Well, Rekall for example can be set up as a front end to Mysql or Postgresql. So you have to have two database programs running on your computer. All the Linux databases I have found so far seem to be the same if you want a GUI front end. You can set up Mysql for example to run by itself but it will not have a GUI. No way could any of my clients use that setup. Access and Paradox however are complete in that the GUI and the database engine are all included in the one program. You do not need anything else. To me this seems the obvious way to be. I am talking here about databases for small companies, remember, which will not have many records. None of my clients so far have more than about 100,000 records. And all clients will expect a GUI front end. If anyone has found such a program for Linux I would be very grateful to hear about it. Meanwhile I will continue searching, and hoping one day....... Neil Winchurst -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.