[odf-discuss] OOobase

[Peter Scheie]

Lars Noodén wrote:
> Ian Lynch wrote:
> ...
>> Anyone use OpenOffice.org base or know of a FOSS database that solves
>> the problem below? I have to say I'm surprised that external data can't
>> be imported into Base, but then I don't use it and we deliberately
>> avoided file based databases in INGOTs because who uses them nowadays? 
> ...
> 
> I do know you can use OOo Base as a front-end for MySQL and that data
> can be imported and exported, but that knowledge comes via a friend who
> does just that using OOo and MySQL for at least one of his businesses
> (which is now large enough that he has hired others to manage the
> operations and employees).
> 
> I'm not even a novice in OOo Base, so what your contact want *might* be
> doable but I am not the one with knowledge to explain it.
> 
> But, as far as other tools go, have they tried Koffice's Kivio?
> 	http://www.koffice.org/kivio/
> 
I assume you mean Kexi, KOffice's data management app.  Kivio is the 
diagram/flow-charting app.

http://www.koffice.org/kexi/

Peter