Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:04:15PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 22 ian 13, 15:50:19, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 09:29:46PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > > and there's still nothing Open Source that comes close to
> > > Access.
> >
> > Which is good to know.
>
> Assuming one has the time and knowledge it is possible to use Access for
> some smaller tasks that, if implemented "properly" would cost many
> thousands of $hard_currency in feasibility studies, consulting,
> commissioning, deployment, support infrastructure, etc. just to get a
> buggy proprietary solution, designed by people who will never use it and
> nobody (including IT support) knows how to fix if it doesn't work.
>
> IMNSHO a FLOSS Access replacement would be quite welcome (I haven't
> looked at Libreoffice Base in a looong time).
>
You might want to have a look at the Dabo framework
<http://dabodev.com/>. Written in python by some ex-foxpro devs with
data-oriented RAD in mind.
dt
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