I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an SQL-aware relational database that supports access through perl DBI or JDBC.
Can I expect to run a relational database that will support access from our researchers' Linux systems and from the NT systems used by the office staff? I think I would prefer to run the server (postgresql?) on the Linux system. Is MS Access the interface that I should expect the office staff to use? That is, is it a client that can allow access to an ODBC server? Please reply with a copy to me. I don't regularly read debian-user (too much traffic). -- Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/