| |||||||||||||
BaseBasePosted Jan 30, 2013 1:57 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)In reply to: Base by AlexHudson Parent article: Schulz: The meaning of the 4.0
Yeah I think you're right about the Java origin.
It's just a bit depressing to see release after release of OOo, AOO, and LO have long lists af sweet new features for Writer and Calc, and a minor thing or two for Base - the only part of the suite that's not pretty awesome already.
Also it seems like the other free DB front ends that once looked promising have mostly died.
I just installed Office 2013 including Access on my new laptop (got it via a Home Use license for $10 so I figured what the heck). I think I will use it to re-aquaint myself with Access (which I used some at work 15+ years ago) and do some thinking about how open source can do what it does.
I am currently deep diving into learning Qt5 well and may be interested in working with a solution that uses that toolkit.
(Log in to post comments)
Base Posted Jan 30, 2013 4:56 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
I'm not sure how much of this kind of tool is actually used for new things in practice, it seems that most of the simple form based data entry and querying that used to be done through MS Access and related tools moved to HTTP CGIs, PHP and frameworks like Rails which pretty much do the same thing.
|
|||||||||||||