Am 27. Mar, 2007 schwätzte Judd Pickell so: > OpenOffice as Base, but not sure what it's actual usability is so far. > Beyond that I don't know of any good open source alternative to access. Most > of the ones I use like Firebird, and Mysql solve problems that don't allow > for your scenario. OpenOffice.org 2.0 has its own database as well as the ability to use external databases or even a spreadsheet as a database. That said, it hasn't worked for me in the 5 minutes I devoted to it one time... See Solveig's excellent OpenOffice blog, http://openoffice.blogs.com/, and look for database and spreadsheet entries. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # "This place has everything. It's even got a Hans." -- Ken Bowley