Link: Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Access
From opensource.com, 4 opensource alternatives to Microsoft Access. Some may be easier to use as well.
From opensource.com, 4 opensource alternatives to Microsoft Access. Some may be easier to use as well.
Opensource.com frequently publishes materials on open source alternative to major commercial products. Since some of my readers may not be techies, let me note that open source software provides free and open access to its source code, so that anyone who knows how can compile and create the program. Someone can also, according to whatever…
This is just a short note. I couldn’t go much further without recommending my key tool without which I could not live. That is jEdit with a variety of plugins. By itself, jEdit is an excellent little text editor. With plugins it can provide a wonderful development environment. I tried test versions of a number…
This time it’s from Serdar Yegulalp at Datamation. There does seem to be an “everything must be free” attitude in the open source community. I don’t know enough to say whether this results in precisely what the article suggests, but I have had difficulty with getting drivers, and I can certainly testify that the graphics…
It’s one of my favorites for web site work as well as use as a programmer’s platform, and it’s available for download.
I have long been an advocate of OpenOffice.org, and have some of my commercial clients using it. For most business needs for an office suite, it provides more than enough capability, and saves companies large amounts of money, even if they make significant donations to the project. I was disappointed in the latest version of…
I wanted to promote this comment to a post to make sure it’s noticed: BibleDesktop has been released with parallel Bible viewing. There is an option to show the differences between any two versions of the Bible in the same language. That was one of the key things I wanted, and I’m glad to see…
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