At first glance it does seem so. There are abundant how-to examples on the web and youtube which adds to its friendliness. Here's one example. Looks like he has a step-by-step video guide and this starts off with the first simple step: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWU0WdMJ2Kw
It isn't "on the fly" friendly like DP is but there is no need for programming language know-how. It also claims to work as front end for other database including text so I'm wondering if it can make populating it from DP a piece of cake. I wonder if our good friend Brian over there down under has any insight on this Libreoffice. Would appreciate your input Brian. Ed. -----Original Message----- From: barmag [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:33 AM To: Ed Marfil Cc: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Is it time to abandon DP after 24 years? I started 2 years later, so I'm almost as stubborn as you but my clients and I are getting desperate. Does Libreoffice database have the advantage of DataPerfect which is an extraordinary program because it does not require the use of a programming language? I don't mind paying for a good program, if only DP would upgrade to Windows. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > Hello Malkie, > > Although I'm one of the stubborn dinosaurs still enamored of DP (since > 1988), I too see the end of this joyride. I've been looking at alternatives > out there and I just started checking out Libreoffice's Base. It can run on > Windows (XP, 7 and 8) or Linux, plus it comes in an office suite program > compatible with word and excel. Immediate draw of course is that it's free > software. > > Has anyone in this group experimented with Libreoffice's base yet? I would > appreciate comments, reviews or suggestions about it. > > Ed > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of barmag > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Dataperf] Is it time to abandon DP after 24 years? > > Hi Everyone; > > Haven't heard from our DP friends for a long time. What happened? Has DP > become so > defunct that I'm the only one left using it? ; ( > > Many of my clients and I have upgraded to Win 64-bit but apparently this new > > platform is not quite compatible for DP Dos version and we need to upgrade > to a > different database. Although I'm sure no program can ever be as superb as > DP, I would > appreciate any suggestion of a more up-to-date user friendly, simple and > great program > to replace DP. > > I hereby would officially like to thank Lew Bastian, DP's author, and the > crew, for this > amazing program I purchased in 1990 and became addicted to. Any plans of > coming > out with a Window's version? I would pay any amount for it. > > Malkie > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
