Re: data entry - Mailing list pgsql-novice

M$ sells "Development Kit", which includes run-time libraries to run
Access database as stand-alone. It compiles run-time libraries and
database to installable package and you can distribute it royalty free.

Allthou, the making of the setup program is slow and it is even slower to
install. Nastiest point to Patrick is that M$ doesn't sell "Developer
Kit" to Office 97, only to Access 2k / office 2k.


> I don't think the "run-time only MS Access" thing is right.  I'm pretty sure
> you still need Access to run an MDE file.  Converting to an MDE file just
> prevents users from modifying the database.
>
> What is Ardent's UniVerse, anyway?
>
> David Boerwinkle
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WOLF, PATRICK <patrick.wolf@Aerojet.com>
> To: 'Kevin Berrien' <kberrien@javanet.com>
> Cc: 'pgsql-novice@postgresql.org' <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [NOVICE] data entry
>
>
> >Is the problem with license that the developer doesn't want to pay the
> >license?  If I remember correctly you can "compile" the MS Access
> >application into an MDE file and then distribute that file with the free,
> >run-time only MS Access.  Is that right?  I've not tried it because all of
> >my applications run on systems here at work and we have a site license to
> MS
> >Office Pro 97 which includes Access.
> >
> >Pat
> >
> >Patrick C. Wolf
> >Test Manager
> >Aerojet
> >Socorro Plant
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Berrien [mailto:kberrien@javanet.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:15 PM
> > To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> > Subject: RE: [NOVICE] data entry
> >
> > This is what I've been doing with a personal project at
> >home.  Since I do a
> > lot of development in Access but wanted to give PostgreSQL a
> >try.  The big
> > problem with using Access is paying for the license.
> >
> > How about a good BASIC & PostgreSQL combination to give you
> >something along
> > the lines of Ardent's UniVerse?  Anyone?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-novice-owner@hub.org
> >[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@hub.org]On
> > Behalf Of WOLF, PATRICK
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:03 PM
> > To: 'deval'; pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> > Subject: RE: [NOVICE] data entry
> >
> >
> > I've got several applications where I use a PostgreSQL
> >database running on a
> > Linux server with a MS Access front end application running
> >on the
> > individual PCs.  It was pretty painless to build, although
> >knowing something
> > about Access would have been nice, and it provides a nice
> >user interface for
> > the individuals that enter the data.  Then I have Perl CGI
> >scripts written
> > on the server to provide read only reports to the web site.
> >
> > Pat
> >
> >
> > Patrick C. Wolf
> > Test Manager
> > Aerojet
> > Socorro Plant
> >
>
>


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