” Soon OpenOffice.org will introduce a database application to
its office suite. For the last couple of years, OpenOffice.org has
been developing its word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation
manager programs to compete head-to-head with similar software
products such as MS Office, Koffice, and Textmaker. The upcoming
Version 2.0 rounds out the offering and adds the ability to create
standalone databases, associated forms, reports, and queries much
like MS Access. According to the documentation it’s called
OpenOffice.org Base.“This story will discuss the OpenOffice.org Base and how it can
be used in your business. I’ll touch on the similarities (plus
differences) with the OpenOffice.org database program and
Access…”