Johan Wehtje wrote:
I doubt you read the rest of the post otherwise I don't think you
would make that comment.
Personlly I think you were right. Access is a good front end, at least
in the sense that it is a hell of a lot better
than anything the OSS community has bothered to come up with. I actually
Paradox is a better choice :).
It is also a front-end that customers are comfortable with.
I think there really is a need for a rich DB client that allows Rapid
development and is easy to link to an office Suite. To be useful to a
business a database needs the applications built on top of it, and
like I said if someone can show me a quicker way of doing this than
Access and still lets me use Postgresql for my backend without any
great drama, I would love to hear of it. My experience with Access
2000 and the latest ODBC drivers has been very positive, but I am wary
of Microsoft's intentions for Access going forward, which I why I
asked if anyone knew of a really viable alternative that I have not
tried.
FYI Open Office 2.0 database, forms, reports etc... is MUCH better than
it was. I believe you can script it as well in Python and maybe Java.
The next best thing that I have tried is Delphi with some of the
libraries available from Sqlmanager or Active Query builder.
You can use Kylix for that but I don't know its status.
But really, for most of the situations I encounter this is a bit like
re-inventing the wheel every time someone wants a cart built. You end
up trying to build an Access like application from the ground up every
time someone wants a Db app. And that seems to me to be taking
antipathy towards Microsoft to a point where it benefits no-one.
Cheers
Johan Wehtje
Matthew Peter wrote:
Someone trying to stick microsoft yet another place
they don't belong.
--- Johan Wehtje <joweht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Very much a description of the Business I am in.
For all the criticism leveled at it, I still think
that as a rich Database Client that permits really rapid
development of Database driven applications Access is unbeatable.
Pair it with a
good Database server and it is the perfect combination.
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