MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3302

The thing is that the "road that is imagined to lead towards an Access clone" winds up educating the would-be developer in how to build one a database application framework of one sort or another, and they wind up heading Somewhere Specialized rather than into creating some sort of "Is it a spreadsheet? Is it a database? Is it a VB engine?" system.

There are two roads one might imagine taking:

1. Someone decides that they don't really care about reliability or sensibility or such, and are willing to cut the corners in terms of data integrity that MS Access is noted for.

These people are likely to be sufficiently uncareful that the results are likely to be worse crud than the aspects of MS Access that are cruddy.

2. Someone that does want to build "The Right Thing" will find that it's quite enough effort to build a framework that has some small (but well-built) portion of MS Access' functionality.

And so they'll wind up walking past MS Access to wind up building something else instead.

Neither path leads to actually achieving a "cloning" of MS Access. -- Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown Charles Schultz