MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3287

Al. C You might have a look at Kylix from Borland. I'm not sure what database integration the Open Edition has, it wasn't clear from a quick Google. The only document I could find listing supported platforms included a Red Hat, so again I don't know if there's anything more up to date. As a heavy Access addict, it's one of those things I keep meaning to investigate...

About seven years ago I was using Delphi on Windows, which is basically a visual object Pascal, with a fairly capable IDE. The version I had could talk directly to Access and several other databases, so I sometimes had a choice as to which to use. Delphi was certainly more demanding to use than Access, but this was largely because it used a 'proper' language rather than VBA. It was still possible to create simple database apps without code, using 'data-aware' controls.

Delphi was vastly more powerful, as there are many places Access just doesn't go. You can write DLLs in Delphi, and create re-usable components. Kylix offers both Pascal and C++, for those who still remember the quiche.

I think the big problem you have is not so much matching the database aspect, or even the RAD facility. Long-time Access users will (like me) have or support many Access applications containing large chunks of VBA. My more recent additions create Excel and Word documents where the built-in reports are too limited. Nobody is ever going to write a clone of Access VBA with Office Automation built in, and the amount of work needed to port existing code to any imaginable Linux equivalent just doesn't bear thinking about.