Semi-OT: Database for "average" users

[David J Patrick]

Christopher Browne wrote:

>On 4/30/05, David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>>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.
>  
>
Has anybody played with it ? I just upgraded to the OO.o2 beta this
afternoon, and have toyed with "base" for maybe 10 minutes. Although I
know didly about DBs, it seems pretty spanky and usable.

>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.
>
I understand your argument re: non-free, but Suns JRE has been quite
good to me.

>  There are a
>bunch of alternative JVMs, but only spotty coverage of Java classes.
>  
>
I honestly wouldn't know a java class from a beer glass.
djp

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