Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 3:37 pm, Ross Bernheim wrote: > > [snip] > > >> I had a database project in mind at the last company. The boss there >> would not even >> consider anything that did not run on MS Windows. He offered Access. I >> declined and >> suggested MySQL. I did not do the project since they would not give me >> any rights to >> the database scheme, etc. even though I would be doing after hours on >> my own time. >> In researching databases, the nicest thing anyone ever said about >> Access was the >> left handed compliment by a Microsoft employee who said that it came >> for free with >> Office, which it did at the time. >> > > I think he's right. After I posted my comment yesterday, I rec'd a phone call > via a reference, and have an idea I'm going to run into this problem of what > to do with an Access database. So, if there's a conversion to any database > for Linux, I'm "all ears!" > Try looking at the MySQL website as well as the PostgreSQL site.
Also there is a project at the sourceforge.net web site for MDBTools. The other two that I know of are commercial products and might be too expensive for your purposes. Maybe these will help. James McKenzie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
