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@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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