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Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database?
New submitter danzvash (447536) writes "I'm doing some volunteering for a street kids charity in Senegal, West Africa, and they need a new database to store all their information for the kids, and to help the funding organizations like UNICEF. The charity staff have a few computers running Windows 7. Being a die-hard OSS geek I'm more inclined to knock up a MySQL backend with a Django (or similar) front-end and run the whole thing from a reliable VPS. But it needs to be understandable by the non-geeks in the charity — there is no IT expertise here. Is there anything that can allow me to design and edit databases, tables, and forms but doesn't require an MS license?"
you say you don't want a ms license. Is this because of the cost or politics?
It's because of ideology. He is a firm advocate of OSS (and probably hates MS to boot), and wants to impose that personal ideology on this charity--possibly costing them dearly when he leaves. It's a very selfish attitude, IMHO.
Personally, I hate Apple and Apple products. But if I went to work at a place that had a bunch of iPads and MacBooks, I would still work on them.