Justin, Shridhar,
> Cool. If you can get a good guide to OpenOffice.org + PostgreSQL
> happening, then the OpenOffice.org guys will definitely want to add
> it
> to their site (and we can post links to that to reduce duplication).
I'd swear that there already is one, somewhere. I'll look; if not, I
need to write one as a member of both projects, hey?
Regarding MS Access replacement:
Both PGAccess (www.pgaccess.org) and OpenOffice.org are working on this
from opposite ends, and I'd judge are 60-70% of the way there. In the
new beta, OpenOffice.org will have a "Form Wizard" and a "Report
Wizard" as well as the data browser and related capabilites. There is
supposed to be a native (SDBC) Postgres driver in development. I don't
know what the status of this is.
For PGAccess, there is already some capability to design tcl/tk forms
and reports from PGAccess, using an interface remarkably like FoxPro or
Paradox9, if anyone here knows those apps. It's just buggy as
all-get-out right now, and undocumented (the latter being partially my
fault).
And for those inclined to pay licensing fees, there's always Kylix, or
MSAccess itself. I did experiment with the Kompany's Rekall, but that
tool is really built for MySQL and has some problems with Postgres.
Actually, I'd say that PGAccess has great possibilites as a real MS
Access-killer, this year even, if some commercial company were to
produce a polished, supported version.
-Josh Berkus
