Simple database application...OO.org?

Kevin Fries kevin at hcico.com
Wed Feb 2 02:29:31 UTC 2005


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Kevin Fries wrote:

| Arthur Pemberton wrote:
|
| | I'm interested in this for the high schools in my country who
| belive | that M$ Office is the end all be all computing. The comsci
| syllabus | here uses an Wordprocessor+spreadshet+database
| combination. So it | would be terribly difficult for me to suggest
| OO if there's no such | database component. I myself have very
| little need for such. | So what you are looking for is something
| like Rekall?
|
| If memory serves me correctly, didn't The Kompany put out a lower
| featured GPL'd version of Rekall?  For some reason, I want to say
| it was added to the KDE project.  Does this ring any bells with
| anyone?
|
| If not, at $70.00 per seat (less for volume licenses), the price
| beats the pants off M$ Access at approx $100 - $130 per seat.  And
| if you use a full database back end like Postgre or MySQL, OO.o has
| an awesome mail merge feature on the F4 key.

OK, sorry for answering my own post, should have done more checking
before spouting off.

See: http://www.rekallrevealed.org/

It sounds like what you are looking for.

Kevin Fries


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