On Wed, 16 March, 2005 at 10:15 AM, Duncan Lithgow said: >> 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? Depending on what this is to be used for, you might also be interested in ebase (http://www.ebase.org/). It's billed as a "complete nonprofit database solution" (whatever that means ;). Based on non-free FileMaker but the rest is free - and the single user version even includes a FileMaker runtime for free. This may be overkill, also but might be worth a look. -- Henry Hartley
