On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:22:56 -0500, pthurmond@kc.rr.com wrote:
>I have used OpenOffice in both Linux and Windows and I have been
>thoroughly impressed. The only thing it lacks is a substitute for MS
>Access. Does anyone know of any such freeware program? Preferably with
>versions for both Linux and Windows?

MySQL

Use MySQL Front on Windows, and any one of various fronts in 
Linux. I prefer phpMyAdmin, but others don't.

If you get used to MySQL, you'll never look back at
Access, except for its useful 'build query' utility
which I haven't yet found elsewhere.

Access is slow, unscaleable, and doesn't play well with 
SQL. Not owning a license to SQL-Server, I recently had to 
convert a complex SQL-Server database and take it home 
with me to work over a weekend; Access was out of the 
question because it's so proprietary in how it handles 
dates and string/numerics; the code converted cleanly to MySQL 
and I was up and coding within about an hour. That's great
for me.

MySQL is fast and scaleable, neither of which is Access.

-Jared