[ANSOL-geral]Alternativa a Access: OpenOffice.org 1.0, unixODBC, and MySQL

[rsolivei@ualg.pt]

Pedido:
"nós gostariamos de obter um programa que faça mais ou menos aquilo que faz o
ACCESS da Microsoft."

Retirado de:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-06-13-017-26-OS-HL-SW

OpenOffice.org 1.0, unixODBC, and MySQL

"The launch of OpenOffice.org 1.0 last month removed at a stroke one major 
obstacle to the universal use of Linux on the desktop. At last, Linux users 
have a complete office software suite - word processor, spreadsheet, graphics, 
and presentations - 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 and cross-platform. 

"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, one of the unpublicised features of OpenOffice.org 1.0 is that 
it has a powerful 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..." 

Howto com bastante detalhe em:
http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf

Espero ter sido útil.

Ruben Oliveira
http://w3.ualg.pt/~rsolivei