[AccessD] LibreOffice Base

[jack drawbridge]

Hi Arthur,

I'm not a Linux user nor familiar with LibreOffice Base. But I do like your
enthusiasm and will look into some tutorials. Glad to see you're still
active and up to your eyeballs into a project - as usual. Good  luck with
your project and volunteering.
Jack

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 8:18 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is anyone actively using Base? A couple of months ago, I converted my main
> box to Linux Mint and installed LibreOffice. I decided to take a look at
> LibreOffice Base, which I haven't done for years, and was shocked to see
> how far it's come since I last looked at it. It's everything Access is, and
> more.
> 1. It's free.
> 2. It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
> 3. It's fully integrated with the other LibreOffice apps.
> 4. It supports many back ends, including Access, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL
> and others.
> 5. Its programming language is everything VBA is, with a few exras such as
> classes.
>
> I was astounded. I'm currently developing an app for organisations that
> rely heavily on volunteers. The prototype was written in Access, but having
> read the Base docs, I decided to curtail the Access version and complete
> the project in Base, primarily because of the ability to deploy to multiple
> platforms, but also because it's free, which matters significantly to
> volunteer-based organisations. Also, when it's done, I plan to make my app
> free as well.
> I'll follow this message up as the project progresses.
>
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