Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 18, 2003 12:26 AM
I would first migrate your VB/Access applications from a local/shared Microsoft Jet database to a Linux database, using MySQL or PostgreSQL, and their Win32 ODBC client software. This offers many advantages, including making your data more accessible to other technologies, and the exercise of making your data/tables more SQL-compliant/portable.
After the data migration and the relinking of the tables to point to their ODBC counterparts, then you can and may consider using an alternative, open source application to replace the VB/Access application, if that is even necessary. After all, it is more about managing the data (value) than it is about the software (expense).
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Re:vb and access
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 18, 2003 12:26 AMAfter the data migration and the relinking of the tables to point to their ODBC counterparts, then you can and may consider using an alternative, open source application to replace the VB/Access application, if that is even necessary. After all, it is more about managing the data (value) than it is about the software (expense).
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