Could you elaborate on some open source databases? I'm looking for
something to replace Access. Something to work as a ODBC client and a
single file data storage with ODBC connectivity for ODBC attached
websites.

Thanks!

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 23:05, robin wrote:
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> >Try Star-office, it is more solid and user friendly.
> >
> Really?  I have found Star Office to be to OO what Netscape is to 
> Mozilla - the same thing with unnecessary add-ons to eat your RAM.  The 
> only difference, AFAIK, between the current SO and OO 641d is the 
> additon of a few proprietary plugins, which have no practical value (why 
> install Adabas when there are dozens of Open Source databases around?).
> 
> As far as I can see, the installation problem has nothing to do with OO. 
>  Try installing from the hard dirve as I suggested, or download the 
> tarball from the website.  OO's main fault is that it's a monolithic 
> standalone package, but this does mean that it will install out of the 
> tarball on just about any system - the fact that they've gone to great 
> lengths to invent the wheel means that there are no pesky dependency 
> problems.
> 
> Sir Robin
> 
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> 
> Robin Turner
> IDMYO
> Bilkent Üniversitesi
> Ankara 06533
> 
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