Re: [Opencd-devel] Database of OSS that runs on Windows

[T B. <emp...@sw...>]

> The reason I get out from lurking mode is that I would like to know
> if there is any database of OSS that work on Windows ?

There are several OSS database engines that work on Windows:

1) MySQL (www.mysql.com), license: GPL

2) PostgreSQL (postgresql.org), license: BSD style, but it can only run in Windows under cygwin.

3) Firebird (in sourceforge), license IBL (Mozilla-style), is a Borland's Interbase fork project.

4) SAP DB (sap.com), license GPL

There are several other OSS database engine, but I don't know if they also could run under Windows. Out of the above four I only have experience running MySQL under Windows, though I like the Linux version better (the case insensitive tables in Windows are quite annoying because I can't easily move them back to Linux)

Anyway, they are only the database engines, without much GUI to administer them. MySQL do have PHPMyAdmin, which could be run from Apache in Windows too, but it's   still not the same as Microsoft Access. Access also has tools to generate input interfaces and reporting based on the tables created. I don't know any OSS project that works on these capabilities.

Well, maybe these database engines are too technical to be included in the open cd project. After all, the target are ordinary users, and maybe they would be expecting something like Access or that database packet in StarOffice (I forgot its name).

T. Budiman
Malaka9
Bandung INA

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