December 4, 2003

Call me crazy, but I've always wanted an Open Source equivalent to MS Access, to quickly assemble searchable databases with simple form-based interfaces. I'm sure there have been others for a while, but it was great to hear about Rekall, and I look forward to playing with it.

comments...

bda, December 4, 2003 3:10 AM:

Err. Yeah. Sorry. It was 5AM and I.. I never learned how to read OMG

bda, December 4, 2003 5:13 AM:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/



It's been around for more than a while. :)



Pretty decent, not super, but usable.

Tumbleweed, December 4, 2003 8:47 AM:

I believe Gnumeric is a spreadsheet, not a database.

Dan Sanderson, December 4, 2003 11:36 AM:

Ya, Gnumeric is equivalent to Excel. It's good, too, as much as I've used it, anyway.



MS Access lets you quickly whip up small database applications with form-based front-ends as well as web access. I'm enamoured with the idea, though in practice I'd probably continue to use web-only interfaces and Perl DBI for that sort of thing...

Tumbleweed, December 4, 2003 12:22 PM:

Yeah, but then you'd hafta use Perl. *shudder* :)