scott wrote:
Dan Lewis wrote:
A customer of mine is using DataEase (which is a database system).
This system is costly and not too flexible. I am considering porting
over the data, macros, forms, and such to the new OpenOffice Base
component. One of the things the customer wants to do is share the
data, forms, and such amongst the different machines attached to the
LAN. They use various flavors of Windows on their machines.
So, what I am asking is, can the data, forms, and such be shared
amongst the various machines on the LAN?
Scott
You indicate that the data is ported to different machines. What you do
not mention, is anything about how the data is currently stored. You
have two choices.
1) Similar to a text document. Each person has their own copy. When I
change my copy, I am the only person who sees the changes. The default
database in OOo works in this way. Yes, OOo 2.0 should be able to handle
this all by itself.
2) The second option is for all of the data to be in one place and then
all of the people access the same copy of the data. A more advanced
database program is required for this. I would recommend MySQL or
PostGRE. The former is smaller and faster and the later has better
support for transactions in a heavy multi-user environment. After
setting up a server to contain this data, you could then configure your
OOo Base document to reference the backend data base system with no
problem. So, OOo 2.0 can handle this, but another product is required to
be run on a server to manage the sharing of the data.
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