OT: give advice to MSAccess user

[Henry Hartley]

On Wed, 16 March, 2005 at 10:15 AM, Duncan Lithgow said:
>> All advice received - let's look at postgreSQL instead. From the
>> links people have posted the most interesting looks like
>> http://www.hipergate.org/ which is a 'customer relationship
>> manager' (urgg!)
>> 
>> It looks very powerful and developed - however it's way overkill
>> for what I want. I wouldn't mine writing my own front end- except
>> I can't and have trouble believing that someone else hasn't made
>> one as a simple 'contact database' with basic functions like
>> making labels for envelopes - I start to wonder if I might be
>> going for overkill even talking about using a database. Maybe I
>> should just stick to a spreadsheet?

Depending on what this is to be used for, you might also be interested
in ebase (http://www.ebase.org/).  It's billed as a "complete nonprofit
database solution" (whatever that means ;).  Based on non-free FileMaker
but the rest is free - and the single user version even includes a
FileMaker runtime for free.  This may be overkill, also but might be
worth a look.

-- 
Henry Hartley