Do you Rekall?
What is the key piece of MSOffice which is not readily available as Open Source? If you guessed none you'd be correct. In a recent press release, theKompany (www.theKompany.com) has released Access-competitor Rekall to the OpenSource community, as a Dual-license GPL (retaining rights to market non-GPL versions to paying customers). While Stallman would not approve, I believe you may find many developers and former-Windozers who do. For more information, please visit http://www.rekallrevealed.org/ Happy Linning. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Do you Rekall?
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:47:51 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:39 am, Matthew Carpenter wrote: What is the key piece of MSOffice which is not readily available as Open Source? [snip] To say that a front-end for database administration or queries is a replacement for MS Access is to say that you haven't used all of the facets of MS Access: [snip Access plug] All the above said, Access is a _toy_. If you need a database (of more than about 100 rows) you really need a SQL database like PostgreSQL. It does all you mentioned and more. It also supports multiple users (hundreds of simultaneous selects), supports transactions, foreign keys, outer joins, and is fast (particularly searches on indexed columns). It is also ACID. I'm putting together yet another database and front end for a gov't agency here. They'll use a web browser. I'm still writing the Perl script to provide the various queries and inserts/updates. But it will get thousands of entries per year. If you want to see a _good_ web - postgresql app, try SQL-Ledger (http://www.sql-ledger.com/). Besides, OO supports ODBC queries of PostgreSQL. Poorly documented, yes. But I have done it (once, and maybe never again; psql is a _lot_ easier, especially if views are properly constructed.) Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis Racing Team motto GPG key autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Do you Rekall?
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 03:26 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:47:51 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:39 am, Matthew Carpenter wrote: What is the key piece of MSOffice which is not readily available as Open Source? [snip] To say that a front-end for database administration or queries is a replacement for MS Access is to say that you haven't used all of the facets of MS Access: [snip Access plug] All the above said, Access is a _toy_. If you need a database (of more than about 100 rows) you really need a SQL database like PostgreSQL. It does all you mentioned and more. It also supports multiple users (hundreds of simultaneous selects), supports transactions, foreign keys, outer joins, and is fast (particularly searches on indexed columns). It is also ACID. I'm putting together yet another database and front end for a gov't agency here. They'll use a web browser. I'm still writing the Perl script to provide the various queries and inserts/updates. But it will get thousands of entries per year. If you want to see a _good_ web - postgresql app, try SQL-Ledger (http://www.sql-ledger.com/). Besides, OO supports ODBC queries of PostgreSQL. Poorly documented, yes. But I have done it (once, and maybe never again; psql is a _lot_ easier, especially if views are properly constructed.) Ciao, David A. Bandel David, Your points are good. You're right, MS Access is not comparable to a **real** database server. I use PostgreSQL on the back-end for the reasons you mentioned. Access has, however, great utility as a flexible front-end for applications or fast, complex, adhoc analysis. Existing query front-ends in Linux usually fail the complexity criteria. Of course, I may be the whining exception. I didn't mean to be plugging MS Access -- I truly want a replacement. MS Access and tax software are the 2 items that will keep a copy of Window on my computer. (I encountered memory limit problems with Access via Crossover Office on a PC with 1.5GB RAM.) Okay, I'll get off my soap box now. Andrew Gould ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users