On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote:
Hello.
Here's the satanic plan: with a little hard work for me, I'm converting my girlfriend's notebook office applications to Zope. She's currently using Microsoft Office for a number of tasks, but I'm "porting" her Excel and Access applications to Zope (not porting Excel, mind you; just the business logic, as well as some reporting stuff from Access.) I have demonstrated her that it would works--and it looks cool BTW, not to mention some stuff I have under my sleeve for her in the future (Zope wise)
But, I've been using Gadfly as the underlying RDBMS service. I know of its limitations (sort of). So, I'm asking you guys if there's a small, SQL compliant to the basic level, Open Source RDBMS that runs under Windows. Or is Gadfly more than enough for personal use?
Best regards, Carlos.
PS. She's running Windows 2000. Tried to convince her to run FreeBSD but that was too much to ask, so I conceded.
MySQL would be an excellent choice. Interbase might be even better--it has many nice windows tools for installing, querying, etc. PostgreSQL is the most powerful of the Open Source databases, in terms of features, however, it's not a simple setup for Windows, and might be overkill for this project. Have fun, -- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington