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Believe it or not, there's a small business who recently hired me to get them out of the mess that is FileMaker 5.0 -- if that, I think the majority of their machines run 4.0. I basically told them that to recreate their FileMaker database as anything relational (which they understand and want) will take about the same amount of time, whether I do FileMaker 8.0 or something else. Chances are, I'll take something like Glom or Rekall, maybe even Gnu Enterprise, create their database in that, and extend it.

I don't know if it'll do taxes, but it will do everything else. And I'll probably GPL all my work, too.

This is what Open Source is all about -- when you figure a system like this will probably cost you several thousand dollars anyway, why not pay a programmer to do it for you? It may end up cheaper, and it certainly means you can hire other contractors to mess with it later.

If you still haven't tied yourself into Access proprietary formats, language and practices (we told you so it would be a bad idea), you can tie yourself now to KDE and Rekall: http://www.rekallrevealed.org/

Bonus-points for those who manage to tie themselves up in this _and_ MS Access or some other obscure format without having a path of migration ready. ;-)

Rekall is not a bad database frontend with Access like style, but that can be used with a range of database backends (mysql, postgresql, etc). Like other Kompany products its is even dual licensed under the GPL. See RekallRevealed.Org

rekall

Now get to work, they need help :)

I think you were meaning Rekall Revealed - the open-source (GPL) version of Rekall.

There are a few:

* Gnu Enterprise (never used it)
* Rekall (Python based)
* pgaccess (TCL/Tk based)

Yes, there is. The commercial version is available for Windows.

Rekall is a very mature replacement for MS Access. It was commercial software once but has been since been open sourced. I am not sure whether it can import Access files yet - OTOH the data itself would be easy to import.

And then there is also Kexi, which looks very promising and will be part of the next KOffice release.

Rekall is available under the GPL:

http://www.rekallrevealed.org/toplevel/getting/sou rce.shtml

A while back, Rekall - in conjunction with a sql database - looked like a potential open-source replacement for FileMaker and Access.

Has anyone here successfully ported a FMP database to Rekall + {MySQL|PostgreSQL|etc}?


Ref: http://www.rekallrevealed.org/

Rekall Revealed (GPL verson of thekompany's rekall product) can do all that, connect to PgSQL and MySQL, while using python as the language backend. Very nice, *and* Free Software.

Abiword is a good, fast word processor. Something like a full featured wordpad.
Frontends to MySQL, there are many. If you like MSAccess, rekall mimics everything, even its evilness. There is a new kde project, kexi aiming for the same objective.

The tools are there, the problem is that the ones who need them, like MSOffice.

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Rekall is compatible with PosgreSQL.

I hear rekall is trying to fill that role. Check it out and see if it meets your needs.

Look here

They got shafted by TheKompany and need some help so download it a send a few bucks their way if you like it. Runs on Linux and Windows.

It's just like Access, except with an multi-window interface instead. It's also extensible with Python.

1. You just need to give out enough of your product to make the public want the stuff you need to pay for.

Another example is The Kompany. They had this tactic before and released some products that allowed them to sell add-ons. After some fumbles, they are back at it again with Rekall as this site shows and as discussed here.

It's pretty hidden, but available:
http://www.rekallrevealed.org/
And see down for 'Obtaining and Building Rekall'

It has a link to
http://www.rekallrevealed.org/packages/rekall-2.2. 0-beta0.tgz

It's pretty hidden, but available:
http://www.rekallrevealed.org/
And see down for 'Obtaining and Building Rekall'

It has a link to
http://www.rekallrevealed.org/packages/rekall-2.2. 0-beta0.tgz

The GPL is a proprietry license in is it? Someone should tell this company company before they GPL their product!

If it's gpl'd where do we get the source code? I would like to download it.

Right here