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On Wednesday 13 December 2006 10:32, Tony Sumner wrote: > On Dec 12, 2006, Henry Bremridge was like: > > - Relate the cost savings to company profitability > > OOo have just put out a newsletter with stuff about OOo 2.1, eg > > The database application, Base, has a number of enhancements, > including improved support for Microsoft's Access product. > > I look forward to finding out more. It may turn out that MySQL is > still the better route though. . > > Tony Sumner Last time I played with Base ( a year ago?) it wouldn't even get through the tutorial. Please can someone confirm its almost usable yet? I do believe it can that Base, like Access can use ODBC and so communicate with almost any database. So if it does work as a quickie frontend it may be of use in a small office..though I would advise anyone who wants to write anything at a 'production' level to consider a different route. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html