Re: Got OSS?

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 18:12, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > I was reading an article about how Oracle, M$ and IBM are now offering
> > free scaled down versions of their DB products. The reason this was done
> > was to be able to compete with OSS versions such as mysql and
> > postgresql. Their hope is that people will use their crippled version to
> > get familiar then pay for the full version.
>
> Along these lines.... does anyone know if there has been any progress
> made towards reading MS-Access .mdb files from open-source tools?
>
> I have a lot of clients who use MS-Access.... so just wondering.
> thanks
> tim

http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/

"MDB Tools currently has read-only support for Access 97 (Jet 3) and Access
2000/2002 (Jet 4) formats. Write support is currently being worked on and the
first cut is expected to be included in the 0.6 release."

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