I hope this is the correct place for this question. If not plase be gentle as you point me in the right direction. I am looking for a database package for our home network. The initial uses will be simple, such as a phone list, and ease of use will be the major concern. Later on we intend to do some more complex databases and versatility and the tools to access it from a variety of front ends, including web pages and programs we write will be critical. I would prefer SQL if that doesn't involve too much of a performance hit. But we will initially be running both server and clients on 486 machines and SQL is not a requirement.
At this point PostgreSQL looks like the best bet. But that is based on the barest of information. I would appreciate hearing people experiances and recomendations. I have a lot of experiance with designing and writing hard coded databases and som experiance with SQL. But I am on disability with some fairly severe cognative impairments. My son is learning to be a decent programmer but has no experiance with databases. Other users will include people who are not computer people. So ease of instalation and use of available front ends is important.
