On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Francisco Alcaraz wrote:

> A Data base system for little data-base, until now the conection with MysQL, 
> postgresql and similar is powerfull and difficult; most of the people do need 
> a not as powerfull data-base server, but a very easy to use (create database, 
> add data, made easyli queries and so on).

Have you tried a dbf file-based database with OO.o?

> 
> Yes, the shadow of access is over us, but we need something similar (probably 
> still not avaliable under linux, but OOo has a projetc about this).
> 

Maybe packaging mdbtools will help w.r.t access?
http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net
http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/gmdb/gmdb2screenshot.png

Since I think they have an ODBC driver, OO.o should also be able to use 
this ... remember though that write support is planned for the next 
release ...

Haven't tried it myself yet ... I downloaded it a few days ago and haven't 
had a chance to look at it yet ...

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