[K12OSN] Database for school desktop use

[Andy Rabagliati <andyr wizzy com>]

Folks,

  We are making considerable progress in South Africa to develop
  a workable school curriculum that is Linux-friendly.

  Directives have been announced by the Education Department that
  say that curriculum objectives be Open-source friendly.

  I have been working with Eshowe High School, where I installed
  an LTSP lab - see http://wizzy.org.za/ - which is operating
  well. They still need help, as they have no Linux experts onsite,
  but they have commendably jumped in with both feet.

  They are going through their checklist.
  
  * Word Processor - <check> AbiWord.  (I do not like OO - heavy)
  * Spreadsheet - <check> Gnumeric.
  * Database.

  Please do not say mysql or something - I use those all the time,
  I need an Access-like file-based database. I seem to remember
  a proprietary DB that went open source last year that might
  fit the bill, but I cannot remember the name.

  All my google searches are hopelessly non-specific - queries
  for "database school linux msaccess" return far too many
  useless results.

  An MS-Access replacement, anyone - curriculum-friendly ?

Cheers,     Andy!

http://wizzy.org.za/