Query/Form Builder / Database

[Bryan O'Neal]

I remember FoxPro being very promising as well, but after the MS
purchase I never say it again...

 

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Subject: Re: Query/Form Builder / Database

 

I'm not sure if you can still get FoxPro 2.6 for UNIX, however this is
about as close to access as you will get.

FoxPro is a stronger database and was created for developers.  It does
have a command window and I saw FoxPro 2.6 Windows in use by financial
analysts in a large corp. about 10 years ago.

I was a FoxPro developer and did from time to time aid the financial
analysts push their envelope.

This was an environment where the data in a mini computer running a
specialized application was exported in DBF format.  As I recall there
were 154 tables each containing anywhere from a few thousand to over a
million records.  This data was relational and spanned.   Spanned
meaning one had to add a date to the query to rebuild an event. 

The financial analysts seemed to to do well using FoxPro Windows.

I have not seen the Unix version, however I have read that it is very
similar or almost identical to the DOS or Windows version.

I think there was also a version for the MAC.

M$ bought FoxPro.  It has been said they bought FoxPro for it's Rushmore
technology.  They quickly started to kill it.  7 or 8 years ago FoxPro
skills where in demand.  The best desktop database ever made and the
Visual versions came with a bunch of stuff.  I miss FoxPro.  



Bryan O'Neal <BONeal at cornerstonehome.com> wrote:

What do people recommend for a good, easy to use, small company database
app with query and form builders?  I have a small group of people
sharing a nasty set of excel files and I want to move them up in the
world, but I don't want to teach them to be DBA's and I don't want to do
everything for them, all I want to do is set up the schema, import the
data, write a few quays and let them play.  Basically I am looking for
the open/free version of MS Access.  And don't tell me I need to run
some $20K Oracle installation for 5 people to share a customer database.
I have heard it all before, Don't let the end users have control, don't
use DA's that don't have advanced permissions and record lock, etc. I
have heard it all before and I still believe in application appropriate
complexity.  I realy am looking for easy to use, but I have never used
any (Other then Access, and I don't want to suport MS if I don't have
to)

 

Suggestions?

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