Semi-OT: Database for "average" users

[Christopher Browne]

On 4/30/05, David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> phil wrote:
> 
> > I guess the question is, anyone know of a project designed to bring an
> > all-in-one database solution to end users such that conceptually easy
> > things are, in fact, easy to do?  (Does anyone think it's even possible?)
> 
> openoffice.org will sport an access-like database. I think they are
> calling it "data",or something equally clever. You can try it today,
> it's in the beta.

It is unobvious whether this will be particularly usable in general.

A fair number of the extensions getting added to OpenOffice.org seem
to be Java apps, and the ability to include Java in Linux
distributions is still pretty spotty.

I don't see any JDK available for Debian other than in the non-free
section, and I haven't seen much indication of alternatives to Sun's
implementation being  widely usable for general purposes.  There are a
bunch of alternative JVMs, but only spotty coverage of Java classes.
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