OpenOffice would not be there without Sun, so a little gratitude would be in order. That’s why it pisses me off to read some of the remarks that have been made about StarOffice as a commercial product. Abiword is a more traditional open source project (although developed by a company) but not really suitable for production (nor is KOffice). OpenOffice and Mozilla are both primarily the result of much work by well-paid developers.
Much as I love open source, it should not be forgotten that many great projects have been mostly “donated” by large corporations (or, in another sense, by venture capitalists who funded Linux dotcoms). I’ve heard that Qt 3.0 contains database functionality, so this might change. There are a few open source projects but I’ve seen none that would be worth mentioning. TheKompany, which I hold in quite high regard, is working on “Rekall” ( ), which is supposed to be a nice front end with form designer for any database backend. ApplixWare (commercial package) contains a graphical database client and a “builder” application for visual apps: the outdated Corel Office package contains Paradox.
Adabas D had to be taken out of OO because it’s licensed from a third party. It’s true that there’s no good free “desktop database” like Access for Linux.
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