Base

So why not do what MS did and take one of the OSS Databases and stick it into base with a frontend and scripting engine tacked on? I'd imagine that there is much of this already existing in OSS and that the biggest work would be buttoning it all together in a way that leveraged the development communities already in place.

I understand we need these database "office" applications but there isn't a very good reason (IMO) not to leverage what we already have and stick a GUI front end on it that strips the command language down and adds a scripting interface. Just imagine PGL as the backend and base as a front end GUI.