I've never used it, but you could try Base, part of OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html
Its built as an Access competitor/replacement, so its possible it may give what you need. No personal anecodates though, as I've never used it. andrew -----Original Message----- From: Tim Colson (tcolson) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:00 PM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: [jug-discussion] MS Access / Filemaker like front-end for MySQL/Oracle? You guessed it, this probably has nothing to do with Java. Go ahead, ban me from the list. :-P I'm looking for something that smells like MS Access (or better) Filemaker that enables a nitwit (i.e. end user) to flip data around, edit it, import/export it... solution must be multi-user, and can't be web-based. The tool must be ridiculously snappy because it will compete for mindshare with Excel...even though we all know Excel is for flippin' calculations... not manipulating tables of data...but that's how people use it...they filter, they sort, they copy/paste, they fill-down. It is what it is. Excel is a better mousetrap for most folks. You might say, "Well...then just flippin' use MS Access + SQL Server...<and go away from this Java User Group list, ya foolhardy nitwit!>" Bzzzz. SQL Server isn't an option. There's gotta be some desktop app that does some of the neat trickery that the http://www.dabbledb.com folks do in a webapp... something that will run cross-platform and connect to Oracle or MySQL for data. Yes...I realize what I'm asking about is a 4GL Client/Server app. Go ahead and tell me why that's stupid you must...and I'll ignore it with as much aplomb as I can muster. <grin> Cheers, Timo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
