On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:05 am, Jason Tesser wrote: > Anyways, my question is could someone send me info links or anything like > that that could aid me in explaining why Access programming, if that is > what you call it, and staying dependant to M$ for that matter, would not be > a good thing to persue for our future. We are having a tech meeting soon > where we will be discusing our future direction and I want to go into that > meeting with information and examples. Thank you for any help, links, or > information you could feed me.
it depends on your need. If you need a scalable, enterprise level, cheaper (likely) solution for SQL database server, then take a look at MySQL, or PostgreSQL. MySQL can run on Win, but it's native on Linux, and so is postgreSQL. Then with the linux server, you can do anything that you want, eg. Using web interface for everyone to access db, etc. If you only need a personal db, then it's really up to you to keep using Access, although there are open source solution for something like that too (eg. openoffice). Could you be more specific on what is it that you need? a web server, file server, db server? I interpret your question is similar to 'is it good to keep using MS Word". If that's really is, then my answer is I would say it's really up to you, although I personally won't, although functionality wise it might be comparable or same as Openoffice or abiword, while those are free. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
