On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:45:12 -0500, Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:14, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > > All advice received - let's look at postgreSQL instead. From the links > > people have posted the most interesting looks like > > http://www.hipergate.org/ which is a 'customer relationship > > manager' (urgg!) > > > > It looks very powerful and developed - however it's way overkill for > > what I want. I wouldn't mine writing my own front end- except I can't > > and have trouble believing that someone else hasn't made one as a simple > > 'contact database' with basic functions like making labels for envelopes > > - I start to wonder if I might be going for overkill even talking about > > using a database. Maybe I should just stick to a spreadsheet? > > > > Duncan > > Go to http://sourceforge.net and put membership in the search field. > There appear to be a large number of membership database projects, > however only the first handful appear to have any activity. > Unfortunately most appear to be based on mysql. But those projects may > be more on the scale of what you are looking for. > There is a project called Glom which uses postgressql as its backend. It is kind of database design program that works a lot like File Maker Pro but looks pretty easy to use like Access in a sense for detailing out basic dbs. http://www.glom.org/ Btw, I have not used this thing so YMMV.
