Re: [SLUG] Linux Databases

[Dean Hamstead <dean@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

try running filemaker in wine

Dean

Phil Scarratt wrote:
> Edwin Humphries wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But 
> > there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for 
> > flat-file databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple 
> > Win databases (eg, Access) and it isn't Microsoft!
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a Linux alternative? My key database is a database 
> > of my experimentation with bush food plants (yes, I know geek and 
> > gardener seem somewhat contradictory :-). This has several fields that 
> > contain bitmaps (photographs of plants). I know about SQL databases, 
> > but it seems a tad overkill for this - and there isn't a simple GUI 
> > front-end.
>
> Short answer: there is nothing that replaces Filemaker Pro or the like. 
> One of the areas I think is lacking in Linux (more than happy to be 
> proved wrong of course). OpenOffice does an OK job at being able to 
> create an interface for the DB backends, but it's not as "user-friendly" 
> as the Windows apps available - although it's more than a year since I 
> was experimenting and it could well have changed (most if not all 
> aspects of OO have only improved). I'm a little surprised that OO can't 
> handle (as others have reported - I've no idea myself) bitmaps when the 
> DB backends can.
>
> Filemaker Pro is originally a Mac program - is there an OSX version? 
> There may be a Linux version if so. May be worth sreaching.
>
> Fil

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