> -----Original Message----- > From: Kent Kirkland > Sent: 24/02/2010 15:23:25 > Subject: Access to Lexi conversion? > I am moving my small business from Windows to Xbuntu Linux and am looking for > the most painless way to move my > custom Access database over to something which can run under Linux. Was > reading about the Kexi project. Would it be > fairly easy to convert all of my tables and forms over to Kexi, and if so, > whom could I speak with about having it done?
Hi Kent. Thanks for trying Kexi. A good idea is to contact Microsoft and request specification document(s) that can unlock your own data and designs. The contact is Paul Lorimer, Group Manager, Microsoft Office Interoperability. See http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/ There are also forums: http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx If you and other users show enough of interest, chances are that MS stops ignoring the demand. It is also good idea to contact your local country's standards body/open stadnards/free software/consumer rights/government representative and communicate your needs and importance of the problem. As you can imagine, developers like us, are rather overworked, so cannot handle extra tasks like lobbying... Technical hint: It is sometimes suggested that using ODBC is the solution but ODBC has nothing to do with forms' and reports' format - it gives you just binary blobs (this alone is already possible without ODBC). And using ODBC certainly requires access to a Windows+MS Access machine. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi-project.org, http://www.koffice.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ Kexi mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kexi
