Comments on: Dump Microsoft Access, Get Kexi

by: Jerry Pressner

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:31:14 +0000

When I saw the headline “Dump Microsoft Access, Get Kexi”, I got really excited. The excitement didn’t last long …

What a dumb article!

by: marytee

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:24:23 +0000

I thought the article was little confusing in its original premise: Dump Access for Kexi, because at the end, Ken Hess talks of the significant shortcomings of Kexi. Despite eschewing nearly all things Microsoft in my personal life, I still use Access to create small apps for non-profits, etc. Neither Kexi or its OpenOffice counterpart, Base, have Access’s robustness. I’ve donated to the OpenOffice project in the past. Perhaps I should throw a little more cash at it to move Base along.

by: bcspratt

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:58:53 +0000

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the article, I liked it. I had not really heard about kexi and it is nice to know open source is addressing the MS Access market. Knowledge is power, and if enough developers get interested in kexi the community will continue to polish it till we get it right. It might even be better than MS Access.

by: mvirard

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:02:56 +0000

Because I found OO Base lacking, I gave Kexi a try … and it failed. From an XP client, I attempted to open a MySQL 4 database (a Koha 2.2.9 DB) on a Debian Linux server. It could not interpret about 5% of the Koha tables.

End of test.

by: foobarbaz

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:07:30 +0000

Sorry - didn’t mean to post that was just playing around. And I was wrong - that wasn’t what u were saying. I am a bad person.

by: foobarbaz

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:01:41 +0000

Microsoft Access is awful. Of course you should dump it - if you’ve got the skills to use Linux you’ve already moved to something easier like postgresql and python tkinter, or .NET and MSDE. Access is designed for middle managers whose computer skills extend to copy paste and building pivot tables in excel, and who want to learn to hack together a receivables database.

JRickard - either you don’t use Access or you don’t remember what an uncooperative bitch it is to get started with. Microsoft has put JET in “maintenance mode” which tells you how much confidence they have in it. The reason why people complain about Microsoft is because they don’t do anything well anymore, and we are forced to use their crumbling infrastructure, or one of their 3 incompatible .net versions. And please don’t whine about people dissing Microsoft when you are ready to insult the author of an opensource project as a poser - it makes you sound like a total c u n t.

by: ja ikzelf

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:22:49 +0000

If Microsoft is so wonderful why does one have to defend it anything that good should stand on its own without comment?
Ever had to deal with a corrupted access database and even after paying a lot of money to experts had to conclude that in the end it didn’t got resolved ?
Than you might understand why people who did pay huge for the Microsoft product that did not deliver start looking for an alternative.
Microsoft never had customer service in the first place, just money making was.

by: jrickard

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:56:15 +0000

The heart of Linux application software all embodied in a single article.

1 Religion. No Linux head can even write an article without some booing and hissing about Microsoft. DUMP MICROSOFT ACCESS.

2. Followed by a glowing description of a program undoubtedly BETTER than Microsoft Access.

3. Followed by alist of all the things broken in the usual Linux app written by 19 year-old poser wunderkinds with compilers that will probably never write an app that actually works before moving on to the next thing to occur to them to do.

Once again, a great idea for a program. I’d love an Access look-alike that just acted as a front end to MySQL - a GUI report designer etc. But this isn’t one.

With the potential for profit removed from software, you get mostly broken software, incompleted projects, abandoned projects, etc.

I would hope Linux Journal would eschew sensational headlines to sell magazines, without some editorial oversite to make sure the article delivers on it. Articles about software that doesn’t work, implies that there are no GOOD programs out there to write about. Is this true?

by: vekaz t

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:55:45 +0000

You call this a serious article? :s

by: ebo thompson

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:05:07 +0000

i don’t know about kexi nor have i used it extensively but OOo3.0 ’s base rocks. i will stick to open office for now