MS Access

[George Gambill]

Devin,

I have been playing around with CodeWeavers CrossOver Office ($54.95).  =
The
new release (2.0) seems to run MS Access as the previous release was =
not
considered to do so reliably.

   ST. PAUL, MN-(April 22nd, 2003)-CodeWeavers, Inc., the leading=20
   Windows=AE-to-Linux=AE software developer, announced today the =
release
   of CrossOver Office? Version 2.0, now enabling Linux users to run=20
   Microsoft Office XP*, ... snip ... and Microsoft Access without the=20
   need for a Windows emulator or OS license.=20

I haven't used it with Access (I use FoxPro) but have had very good =
results
with Word, Excel (etc.).  CrossOver office is very easy to install and
loading MS office products is a simple and straight forward.

I have just started playing with Wine (free).  Per the CodeWeavers web =
site:
"CodeWeavers is the leading corporate backer of the Wine Project. Wine =
is an
open source software initiative that is systematically re-implementing =
the
Win32 API under Linux. Wine makes it possible for Linux PCs to run =
Windows
applications as if natively. We use our expertise in Wine to help our
customers leverage Windows technology in the Linux world."

I haven't found Wine to be as easy to install as CrossOver Office.  =
But, you
may be able to get MS Access running under Wine.

Hope this helps

George

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Subject: MS Access
From: devin rankin <devin@nevid.net>
Date: 06 Jun 2003 08:34:25 -0700

I am still trying to leave Windows behind me.  I have moved much of my
life to my Red Hat 9 box and learning how to get stuff done without the
great Satin Microsoft.

But, I have a database in Access 97 that I would really like to =
continue
to use.  It has my past history of clients and I really like the way it
is set up.  I'm not looking forward to learning something else to
re-write it right now.  So my question is, is there something out there
that can open and use an Access database?  There does not seem to be
anything in Open Office that does that.  Where might I look?=20

Devin