[K12OSN] Database for school desktop use
Andy Rabagliati
andyr at wizzy.com
Sat Feb 21 09:54:02 UTC 2004
Folks,
We are making considerable progress in South Africa to develop
a workable school curriculum that is Linux-friendly.
Directives have been announced by the Education Department that
say that curriculum objectives be Open-source friendly.
I have been working with Eshowe High School, where I installed
an LTSP lab - see http://wizzy.org.za/ - which is operating
well. They still need help, as they have no Linux experts onsite,
but they have commendably jumped in with both feet.
They are going through their checklist.
* Word Processor - <check> AbiWord. (I do not like OO - heavy)
* Spreadsheet - <check> Gnumeric.
* Database.
Please do not say mysql or something - I use those all the time,
I need an Access-like file-based database. I seem to remember
a proprietary DB that went open source last year that might
fit the bill, but I cannot remember the name.
All my google searches are hopelessly non-specific - queries
for "database school linux msaccess" return far too many
useless results.
An MS-Access replacement, anyone - curriculum-friendly ?
Cheers, Andy!
http://wizzy.org.za/
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