RE: Should we stay with M$
From: Wade Chandler (wchandler_at_redesetgrow.com)
Date: 09/11/03
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To: <redhat-list@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:22:56 -0400
Open Office uses data connections to emulate what Access does, but
without locking your into one particular database. The user asking the
first question can use Adabas, PervasiveSQL, Firebird
(www.firebirdsql.org) for some C databases. Then OpenOffice can also
setup JDBC and ODBC datasources. Some standalone JDBC databases
freebies are out there. One is HSQLDB ( hsqldb.sourceforge.net ) a pure
Java Database I've used this a bit, it's pretty nice. You'll need to
have the JVM configured for Open Office. Anyways, there is a little
more input on the subject.
Good luck to the original poster. I believe using Linux is always
better than using Windows (personal prefference). You can always get
off cheaper....in licenses alone. You'll also find that once you
understand Linux and have more Linux machines that connectivity between
them and running applications from other machines and things like that
is extremely easy, check out tunneling through ssh....remote X is
awesome. Run an app on your desktop which is actually running on the
server without actually going into any "Remote Connection."
On the server side if you really need ASP you can use Chili Soft ASP
from Sun and their server product is pretty cheap. There are tons of
Java and PHP solutions, and I have many other pionters for you to the
overall advantages....there really are too many to list in one email. I
say yes in most cases, but it depends on your solution all in all. Do
your internal users only have Windows PCs and can you actually swith
them all over to Linux? What costs are involved? Usually hardware is
not one if you have PCs already and don't need Windows...or you can dual
boot in some cases or use Code Weavers. Training may be an issue...how
much down time can you incur things like that....that will be up to how
competent your users are and how willing management is to go to new
platforms. It will also probably end up being determined by other
software investments your company has in other things as well....like
proprietary software packages that may only run on Windows....
Hope that helps....
Wade
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On Behalf Of Dave Ihnat
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:57 AM
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Should we stay with M$
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:08:01AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> 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).
Just to clarify--unless something has changed recently, there's no DB in
OpenOffice.
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