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From: Baron on 25 Jan 2010 15:47 Tim Watts Inscribed thus: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:58:06 +0000, John Devereux > <john(a)devereux.me.uk> wrote: > >> The main deficiency I found was the database front-end which seems >> very limited compared to Access. For most users everything else is >> equivalent or superior to MS Office. You can of course run almost any >> program in VirtualBox as pointed out elsewhere, it really works very >> well - it seems faster than native in most cases due to lack of virus >> scanner I expect. > > Agreed. (Worth reiterating that's a lack of open source in general > problem rather than specifically an Ubuntu issue). > > Rekall was showing a little fledgling promise for a while but it died. > knoda is OK for quick and dirty table data entry and IIRC can manage > basic forms. > > But, you're right - there is absolutely nothing that comes anywhere > near > Access that I know off - and I tried a few commercial programs on a > trial basis too. > > Access is the one truly decent bit of software I think MS came out > with. Probably because it is an incredibly hard bit of software to > write well - not something I think would be easy for a couple of bods > to knock up in the evenings. It's very GUI heavy on the user > interaction side. Access was derived from Ashton Tate's DB3 and FoxPro. > Writing something that didn't have much gui support for design (say > required doing the design in a declaritive language of some sort) but > churned out nice guis for the users (and even better, could generate > and run those same guis in a scripted web environment) would be an > easier starting point. Once you have that, it becomes easier to then > attack the design-as-a-gui end. > > If you don't have decent event scripting on every widget, and proper > subform support it's a non starter... > > -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: Rich Webb on 25 Jan 2010 16:17 On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:43:54 +0000, Baron <baron.nospam(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote: >AndyS Inscribed thus: > >> Andy asks: >> >> I am considering switching from WINDOWS to UBUNTU, which is a >> Linnux >> based operating system. >> >> Has anyone here had any experience with it or have any pointers >> that >> I should be aware of ?? >> >> Thanks, >> >> AndyS W4OAH > >Ubuntu makes easy things hard. Try others before making a firm choice. >Open SuSE <www.opensuse.org/en> >Live CD's and full install DVD. >Though my personal preference is version 11.0 with KDE3.5 desktop. Try openSUSE 11.2 -- They've gone back to KDE (the new release) as the default window manager & desktop. Very slick. I was originally RedHat and then Fedora when that launched but openSUSE is sweet. But yes, the OP ought to at least drop by http://distrowatch.com/ to look around at other options. So many to choose from! -- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
From: Tim Watts on 25 Jan 2010 18:33 On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:47:53 +0000, Baron <baron.nospam(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wibbled: > > Access was derived from Ashton Tate's DB3 and FoxPro. The primary contribution from FoxPro was Rushmore acceleration. I never used the Windows version of FP but I though the Access GUI was more or less all MS? -- Tim Watts Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.
From: Tim Watts on 25 Jan 2010 19:08 On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:43:54 +0000, Baron <baron.nospam(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wibbled: > Ubuntu makes easy things hard. Try others before making a firm choice. > Open SuSE <www.opensuse.org/en> What's hard about Ubuntu? I find the Debian config system very thorough... -- Tim Watts Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.
From: Robert Latest on 26 Jan 2010 13:46
Tim Watts wrote: > But, you're right - there is absolutely nothing that comes anywhere near > Access that I know off - and I tried a few commercial programs on a > trial basis too. I've never got my head around Access. I don't know how to make it get things out of a database that I need. I prefer good ol' plain SQL. robert |