Hi Friends,
I am working in an organization that primarily deals with hospitals and colleges. We are using M$ Excel to keep data related to those hospitals/institution. Now those sheets have grown in number and size to trouble the less tech aware seniors. I have suggest them to go for a proper database system. Thankfully, they hadn't bought a license for M$ Access and I am hopeful the licensing cost for the same will give them a little pain. I want to present OpenOffice Base (OO.Base) as a better alternative to them. These are my queries regarding OO.Base: 1) The database should run on a central machine and others will input/access data from their PC using a small application (Form). Is it possible with OO.Base? 2) I am also hopeful that i will be asked to develop the forms for this system. Its possible in OpenOffice to create forms easily. I have only Linux (Ubuntu Hardy) on my laptop while in my organization they all use winXP. Will the forms developed in OO.Base on Linux will run in OO.Base running on winXP? 3) Can I make those forms run independent of OO.Base like a compiled program? If not, please suggest any solution for this. 4) Is there any other open-source alternative which can satisfy these requirements? Thank you all Niyaz _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
