On 1/11/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you ever used access? If not, that is why you don't understand what > they mean by "database frontend". A lot of applications are made using > Access. Linux really needs an equivalent.
I'd really have to see it to believe it. I've used Access extensively, and I'd rather take a ball-peen hammer to the head, repeatedly, than do it again. I'm being melodramatic. But seriously, the only thing that needs saving from the failed experiment called Access is the basic basic concept of simplifying database creation into a fundamental set of primitives that the desktop-class user might find useful. Something I could create a database of my CD collection with as easily as I could create a database of computer parts I've purchased. Beyond that basic idea, Access is shit (sorry children). It has a confusing interface, it doesn't produce a real database usable by non-Access programs, and it's just too damned point-and-click. How the hell is a query a "form" anyway? I don't have much hope for this OO "Base" that gets talked about. Everything else OpenOffice has been imitation MS Office, and if they do the same with Base, then they're screwing up. MS Office is a great set of applications (you heard it here, folks), but Access is the neglected step-child of the bunch. Access has been left to rot by Microsoft, receiving only GUI updates. Even Microsoft knows their product sucks. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
