Re: FOSS alternatives to an MS-Access-based organizational software solution

2010-12-10 Thread Rami Addady
Hi Eyal, It look like CRM solution will meet your needs I can recommend Vtiger its foss. You can play around with the CRM entities change customer to grad student etc. Add and remove fields from grad student, To adjust it to your needs - Communicates directly or via imported/exported data fil

Re: FOSS alternatives to an MS-Access-based organizational software solution

2010-12-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:21:12PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > 3. The recent merger of MySQL by Sun, followed by the merger of Sun by Oracle > puts a lot of uncertainty into its future. Only if you need the proprietary version from Oracle. Some active forks have already begun before Sun was bou

Re: FOSS alternatives to an MS-Access-based organizational software solution

2010-12-06 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Hi Eyal, 1. I'm a programmer with about 10 years experience in MS Access and Visual Basic, and also some experience with MySQL. If you are looking for a programmer I might be able to do the job for you. 2. I think MySQL is usually the preferred open source database, if you don't like Access you

FOSS alternatives to an MS-Access-based organizational software solution

2010-12-04 Thread Eyal Rozenberg
(Carrying over a question I asked on Haifux) I would like some advice regarding a possible upgrade of an organizational software application we use at the Technion Graduate Student Organization. In fact, while initially what I need is advice and directions, we may soon be interested in cont