On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Tim Deaton <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not a programmer.  I'm a bookkeeper.  For 24 years I worked in a very
> small company, and if I had waited for our one IT guy to develop what we
> needed in Foxpro, most of it would never have happened.  I needed a
> relational database that was easy enough to learn and work in that I could
> get systems written and online working on it just 2 or 3 days a month.
>  Foxpro didn't cut it.  Access97 did, and that's the market that I believe
> OOo Base belongs in.


I wish.  In my own experience, Base wouldn't quite cut it for an Access
replacement. But maybe that's just because the real HSQLDB functionality is
harder to get to.


But seriously, Base is not besting Access just yet.

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