MESSAGE
| DATE | 2003-02-06 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
|
| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] This is so funny it is sad..
|
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 03:09, Ruben I Safir wrote:
> Database Manager
> Company Information
> http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org
[snip]
> community
> computer savvy
> progressive
> Microsoft Access experience a plus,
??????!!!!!
'Access' your data - OpenOffice.org 1.0's best kept secret
'Access' for Linux?
The launch of OpenOffice.org 1.0 in 2002 removed at a stroke one major
obstacle to the universal use of Linux on the desktop. At last, Linux
users have office software - word processor, spreadsheet, graphics, and
presentation - which not only works at least as well as the Microsoft
Office equivalent, but can also use Microsoft Office file formats, and
is genuinely open source.
However, this hasn't prevented objections from Microsoft diehards that
they still can't migrate to Linux, because "Linux hasn't anything like
Microsoft Access". Well, have I got news for you. It has, and it's
called OpenOffice.org 1.0. One of the hidden secrets of OpenOffice.org
1.0 is that it also has a great user-friendly database front end. All
you need to do is wire it up to one of the many open-source databases on
Linux, and you have a Microsoft Access (and more) equivalent.
This document explains how to make this connection, and then provides a
quick tour of the database tools within OpenOffice.org 1.0. Many
hardened OpenOffice.org 1.0 users are completely unaware of what is
hiding under the covers, and are amazed once they start playing with the
'hidden' tools.
http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf
- Ron
____________________________
New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
|
|
