[NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and MS-Access

[Bug Hunter]

  Open Office and MySQL.  Much faster, now supports transactions.

  I tried and failed to get postgresql to work, but got MySQL working in
about 30 minutes.



On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Rengasamy, Samy wrote:

> A friend of mine wants an alternative to his windoze centric
> systems. His office mostly uses MS-Excel and MS-Access.
> 
> I was going to suggest Open Office and Postgresql, on Linux.
> 
> What are your suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Samy Rengasamy.
>