Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-16 Thread amos
Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases (eg, Access) and it isn't Microsoft! Can anyone suggest

[SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Edwin Humphries
I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases (eg, Access) and it isn't Microsoft! Can anyone suggest a Linux alternative? My

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 08:03, Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases (eg, Access) and it

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Edwin Humphries
Andrew, I now know two things about OpenOffice: it can do databases quite neatly, and it can't do databases with bitmaps as fields. At 08:25 AM 15/09/2004, you wrote: I know you can do flatfile databases within Open Office not to sure about adding images though Heres a website explaining it on

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases (eg, Access) and it isn't Microsoft! Can anyone suggest

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 08:54, Phil Scarratt wrote: Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
try running filemaker in wine Dean Phil Scarratt wrote: Edwin Humphries wrote: I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win databases

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Howard Lowndes wrote: There is a product called Rekall http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/ which provides a front end to a number of backend dbs, inc MySQL and PostgreSQL This looks quite good and complete, and it's been GPL'ed. Just took a quick look around their site and noticed that of

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Howard Lowndes wrote: There is a product called Rekall http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/ which provides a front end to a number of backend dbs, inc MySQL and PostgreSQL Sorry, should've posted the non-commercial version link http://www.rekallrevealed.org/index.shtml The source is

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread David
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Phil Scarratt wrote: Filemaker Pro is originally a Mac program - is there an OSX version? There may be a Linux version if so. May be worth sreaching. Yes, there is an OS X version - it's still very much a Mac program. I rang Filemaker out of curiosity, and the

Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

2004-09-14 Thread Craig Mitchell
I've just purchased a program called Servoy, it's commercial, but has a 90 day developer trial available. Not expensive. Will run on windoze, osx and linux (written in Java). Has it's own build in db, or will connect to almost any sql (I'm using it for a snail mail management package with mysql).